Mental health and climate change: tackling invisible injustice

Ingle, Harriet; Mikulewicz, Michael

doi:10.1016/s2542-5196(20)30081-4

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“…These vulnerable regions and populations are among the least responsible for the greenhouse gases that are warming the planet. The concept of climate justice highlights this double inequality of climate change, where there is an inverse distribution between risk and responsibility [ 128 ].…”

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Climate Change and Mental Health: A Scoping Review

Charlson

Ali

Benmarhnia

et al. 2021

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Climate change is negatively impacting the mental health of populations. This scoping review aims to assess the available literature related to climate change and mental health across the World Health Organisation’s (WHO) five global research priorities for protecting human health from climate change. We conducted a scoping review to identify original research studies related to mental health and climate change using online academic databases. We assessed the quality of studies where appropriate assessment tools were available. We identified 120 original studies published between 2001 and 2020. Most studies were quantitative (n = 67), cross-sectional (n = 42), conducted in high-income countries (n = 87), and concerned with the first of the WHO global research priorities—assessing the mental health risks associated with climate change (n = 101). Several climate-related exposures, including heat, humidity, rainfall, drought, wildfires, and floods were associated with psychological distress, worsened mental health, and higher mortality among people with pre-existing mental health conditions, increased psychiatric hospitalisations, and heightened suicide rates. Few studies (n = 19) addressed the other four global research priorities of protecting health from climate change (effective interventions (n = 8); mitigation and adaptation (n = 7); improving decision-support (n = 3); and cost estimations (n = 1)). While climate change and mental health represents a rapidly growing area of research, it needs to accelerate and broaden in scope to respond with evidence-based mitigation and adaptation strategies.

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confidence: 99%

Climate Change and Mental Health: A Scoping Review

Charlson

Ali

Benmarhnia

et al. 2021

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“…Climate justice highlights the disproportionate impact which climate change has on those most vulnerable to its effects, who are typically the poorest and most marginalized members of society (as well as being those least culpable for the emissions that cause climate change) (Ingle & Mikulewicz, 2020). There is thus a double inequality where those least resilient and least able to adapt to climate impacts are additionally the most vulnerable to impacts caused by climate breakdown.…”

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Climate “Psychopathology”

Thompson

2021

European Psychologist

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Abstract. Climate change is now widely recognized as the greatest threat faced by humanity for thousands of years and is known to affect the social and environmental determinants of health; including access to clean air, safe drinking water, sufficient food, and secure shelter ( WHO, 2018 ). Anthropogenic climate change has already resulted in warming and precipitation trends that claim 150,000 lives annually, and a recent report from the WHO forecasts that between 2030 and 2050 climate change will cause an additional 250,000 additional deaths per year ( WHO, 2018 ). The interaction between climate change, mental health, and physical health is not yet well understood. This review addresses the question of how climate change is affecting mental health and will demonstrate that climate psychopathologies really matter in the face of the climate emergency.

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“…Es wurde diskutiert, diese Angst als "Klima-Angst" in den Diagnosesystemen zu berücksichtigen. Dies würde allerdings bedeuten, dass eine an sich angemessene Reaktion pathologisiert würde [7], was in der aktuellen Situation nicht hilfreich wäre. Auch weisen internationale Studien darauf hin, dass die Sorgen angesichts des Klimawandels zwar eklatant sind [8], aber nur selten ein klinisch bedeutsames Level erreichen [9].…”

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Psychosoziale Medizin in Zeiten des Umbruchs: Klimawandel und psychische Gesundheit

Ditzen¹,

Nikendei²,

Härter³

2021

Psychother Psychosom Med Psychol

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Der diesjährige Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Psychologie und der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Medizinische Soziologie in Hamburg war betitelt „Psychosoziale Medizin in Zeiten des Umbruchs“ (https://dgmp-dgms-2021.de/) und fand online vom 15. bis 17. September 2021 statt. Thematisch fokussierte der Kongress auf die Umbrüche und umfassenden Veränderungen, die sowohl die Welt, unsere Gesellschaft als auch unsere Fächer in Zukunft vor Herausforderungen stellen werden. Dies gilt für die Folgen des globalen Klimawandels, für die aktuelle COVID-19-Pandemie und auch sehr konkret für die bevorstehende Reform des Medizinstudiums und der Approbationsordnung. Einer der Hauptvorträge widmete sich dem Klimawandel als globale Herausforderung und der Frage, was die genannten Umbruchsituationen für die psychische Gesundheit bedeuten.

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Mental health and climate change: tackling invisible injustice

Cited by 79 publications

References 7 publications

Climate Change and Mental Health: A Scoping Review

Climate Change and Mental Health: A Scoping Review

Climate “Psychopathology”

Psychosoziale Medizin in Zeiten des Umbruchs: Klimawandel und psychische Gesundheit

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