The incidence of floods also increases the occurrence of diseases  and undernutrition in children living in informal settlements and slums in Asia  and Africa . Women and children are currently bearing the worst impacts of climate hazards, and are unable to move due to assigned gender roles to avoid flooding risks in highly vulnerable slums in Bangladesh. This results in poor living conditions and causes the women emotional distress . This region experienced severe floods associated with death, injury, infectious disease, mental and emotional stress and cultural disruptions- dimensions of non-economic losses that are often not accounted for in disaster relief policies  and these greatly influence the ability to build adaptive capacities for future hazards . In the same way, risks to female-headed households that have insecure tenure rights are greater. This group was the most affected by flooding in 2018 in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, costing 3-4% of the country's GDP and affecting 4.5 million people .
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