The core archive we seek to create is a set of over one hundred Health Histories. We use this term to indicate a modified form of life history analysis that works with a set of people and households to tell long-form histories of where and how they live, how climate change is shaping their life, and, finally, how they perceive it is impacting their health.

Health histories are thus histories not just of illness and care-seeking but of work, housing, children, aspirations, settlements, floods, and heat all at once.

In the fullness of these narratives, we argue, we are able to understand how people believe climate change is impacting their health and their lives, both directly through, say, changes in patterns of illness, or indirectly, through what it does to income, work, home, and mobility.