Climate change and mental health: An overview
According to the UN Environment Programme “climate change is one of the most pervasive and threatening issues of our time”. “In many places, temperature changes and sea-level rise are already putting ecosystems under stress and affecting human well-being” (1). The presentation wants to give an overv...
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| description | According to the UN Environment Programme “climate change is one of the most pervasive and threatening issues of our time”. “In many places, temperature changes and sea-level rise are already putting ecosystems under stress and affecting human well-being” (1). The presentation wants to give an overview on how climate change can affect mental health. A search was performed on PubMed for the combination of “climate change” and “mental health”. 281 publications were identified, the first being from 2007 (the only one in that year). In 2020, until Dec 22nd, 76 publications were found. The somehow prophetic 2007 publication reviews “natural disasters, climate change and mental health considerations for rural Australia” (2) and pinpoints central aspects of today’s debate, namely anxiety and depression, vulnerability and resilience. In addition to problems of rural areas (2), the impact of urbanicity (3) will be discussed as well as the role of air pollution on psychiatric disorders (4). (1) UN Environment Programme. https://www.unenvironment.org/explore-topics/climate-change/about-climate-change Dec 22nd, 2020. (2) Morissey SA, Reser JP. Aust J Rural Health. 2007 Apr;15(2):120-5. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1584.2007.00865.x. (3) Krabbendam L et al. Psychol Med. 2020 Mar 11:1-12. doi: 10.1017/S0033291720000355. (4) Kim SY et al. Sci Total Environ. 2020 Dec 8;757:143960. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143960. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-c00c721d6a8443eb919b808e5234e0042023-11-17T05:06:01ZengCambridge University PressEuropean Psychiatry0924-93381778-35852021-04-0164S11S1110.1192/j.eurpsy.2021.50Climate change and mental health: An overviewA. Erfurth0G. Sachs1Department Of Psychiatry And Psychotherapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, AustriaDepartment Of Psychiatry And Psychotherapy, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, AustriaAccording to the UN Environment Programme “climate change is one of the most pervasive and threatening issues of our time”. “In many places, temperature changes and sea-level rise are already putting ecosystems under stress and affecting human well-being” (1). The presentation wants to give an overview on how climate change can affect mental health. A search was performed on PubMed for the combination of “climate change” and “mental health”. 281 publications were identified, the first being from 2007 (the only one in that year). In 2020, until Dec 22nd, 76 publications were found. The somehow prophetic 2007 publication reviews “natural disasters, climate change and mental health considerations for rural Australia” (2) and pinpoints central aspects of today’s debate, namely anxiety and depression, vulnerability and resilience. In addition to problems of rural areas (2), the impact of urbanicity (3) will be discussed as well as the role of air pollution on psychiatric disorders (4). (1) UN Environment Programme. https://www.unenvironment.org/explore-topics/climate-change/about-climate-change Dec 22nd, 2020. (2) Morissey SA, Reser JP. Aust J Rural Health. 2007 Apr;15(2):120-5. doi: 10.1111/j.1440-1584.2007.00865.x. (3) Krabbendam L et al. Psychol Med. 2020 Mar 11:1-12. doi: 10.1017/S0033291720000355. (4) Kim SY et al. Sci Total Environ. 2020 Dec 8;757:143960. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143960.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S092493382100050X/type/journal_articleair pollutionclimate changemental healthUrbanicity |
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