Environmental Impacts on Mental Health

Abstract

While the social, economic, and environmental determinants of mental health have long been recognized, an emerging awareness over recent years has been the particular impacts of climate change and related environmental threats on mental health. Climate change is regarded as the most serious global health threat of the twenty-first century. As well as physical health impacts, climate change also affects people's mental health and psychosocial well-being via the direct effects of extreme weather events or the flow-on effects of its gradual or indirect impacts