Mental Health Impacts of Climate Change: Perspectives for the ED Clinician

Nicholas, Patrice K.; Breakey, Suellen; White, Bradley Patrick; Brown, Marie Annette; Fanuele, Jenny; Starodub, Roksolana; Ros, Ana Viamonte

doi:10.1016/j.jen.2020.05.014

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“…Future work should investigate more systematically the possible effectiveness, scalability, and cost-effectiveness of interventions and policies aimed at safeguarding mental health in the face of climate change, including non-mental health interventions. Various health professionals, including nurses [ 108 ], emergency department clinicians [ 109 , 110 ], clinical psychologists, and psychiatrists [ 111 , 112 ], have already outlined ways to address mental health problems related to climate change within clinical practice and broader policy, highlighting the strong willingness to act in the medical community. There is also a growing movement of climate advocacy in the health sector, recognising the responsibility to protect the health of current and future generations and calling for meaningful government action [ 113 ].…”

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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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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate Change and Mental Health: A Scoping Review

Charlson

Ali

Benmarhnia

et al. 2021

IJERPH

256

132

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“…For example, one of the causes of climate change is deforestation, which leads to loss of natural habitat and forced animal migration, causing increased contact between humans and animals, which may result in spillover of organisms from animals to humans. 67 In fact, genetic and molecular analyses support that SARS-CoV-2 could be originated from bats, highlighting the strong zoonotic potential of coronaviruses. 68 …”

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Are climate change and mental health correlated?

Ramadan

Ataallah

2021

Gen Psych

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Climate change is one of the biggest challenges of our time and is likely to affect human beings in substantial ways. Recently, researchers started paying more attention to the changes in climate and their subsequent impact on the social, environmental and economic determinants of health, and the role they play in causing or exacerbating mental health problems. The effects of climate change-related events on mental well-being could be classified into direct and indirect effects. The direct effects of climate change mostly occur after acute weather events and include post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, substance abuse disorder, depression and even suicidal ideation. The indirect effects include economic losses, displacement and forced migration, competition over scarce resources and collective violence. The risk factors for developing those mental health issues include young age, female gender, low socioeconomic status, loss or injury of a loved one, being a member of immigrant groups or indigenous people, pre-existing mental illness and inadequate social support. However, in some individuals, especially those undisturbed by any directly observable effects of climate change, abstract awareness and acknowledgement of the ongoing climate crisis can induce negative emotions that can be intense enough to cause mental health illness. Coping strategies should be provided to the affected communities to protect their mental health from collapse in the face of climate disasters. Awareness of the mental health impacts of climate change should be raised, especially in the high-risk groups. Social and global attention to the climate crisis and its detrimental effects on mental health are crucial.This paper was written with the aim of trying to understand the currently, scientifically proven impact of climate change-related disasters on mental health and understanding the different methods of solving the problem at the corporate level, by trying to decrease greenhouse gas emissions to zero, and at the individual level by learning how to cope with the impacts of those disasters.

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“…Some population groups may be at greater risk of mental health difficulties during and after disasters. Those groups include, among others: people living in low -or middle-income countries, those with low socioeconomic status, ethnic communities, migrants, indigenous peoples, children and pregnant women, the elderly, people with pre-existing somatic or psychiatric illness, people with disability, as well as sexual minorities [10][11][12].…”

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Climate change and mental health: a review of current literature

Gawrych¹

2022

Psychiatr Pol

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Niniejszy artykuł przeglądowy skupia się na implikacjach zmian klimatu dla zdrowia psychicznego. Globalne ocieplenie może spowodować poważne i powszechne sytuacje kryzysowe: ekstremalne upały, susze, pożary, katastrofy wodne (np. powodzie, huragany i burze przybrzeżne), ekstremalne opady śniegu, gwałtowne burze oraz tornada. Rosnące temperatury, podniesienie się poziomu oceanów oraz ekstremalne zjawiska pogodowe mogą doprowadzić do drugo- i trzeciorzędowych konsekwencji, np. konfliktów społecznych, zubożenia i przesiedleń ludności. Zagrożenia dla zdrowia psychicznego obejmują: silne stresory, zaburzenia związane ze stresem, lęk, rozpacz, depresję i myśli samobójcze. Zagrożenia te mogą wynikać zarówno z bezpośrednich następstw klęsk żywiołowych związanych z klimatem (np. ekstremalne zjawiska pogodowe), w tym wolniej przebiegających katastrof (np. susza), jak i obaw o samo zjawisko zmiany klimatu. Skoncentrowanie się na wpływie zmian klimatu na zdrowie psychiczne może pomóc lepiej zrozumieć czynniki, które wzmacniają odporność i adaptację psychospołeczną, a także opracować interwencje dostosowane do lokalnych potrzeb. Efektywna adaptacja psychospołeczna do nadchodzących wyzwań wynikających ze zmian klimatu wymaga rozwoju kapitału społecznego oraz wzmocnienia systemów instytucjonalnych.

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Mental Health Impacts of Climate Change: Perspectives for the ED Clinician

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Climate Change and Mental Health: A Scoping Review

Climate Change and Mental Health: A Scoping Review

Are climate change and mental health correlated?

Climate change and mental health: a review of current literature

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