Quantitative methods for climate change and mental health research: current trends and future directions

Massazza, Alessandro; Teyton, Anaïs; Charlson, Fiona J; Benmarhnia, Tarik; Augustinavicius, Jura

doi:10.1016/s2542-5196(22)00120-6

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“…Increasing efforts to create accessible mental health databases that can be linked with the multiple available environmental databases seems essential. 33 Opportunities to include mental health indicators in research assessing climate change impacts on health are worthy of exploration. 33…”

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The 2022 report of theMJA–LancetCountdown on health and climate change: Australia unprepared and paying the price

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Medical Journal of Australia

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Summary The MJA–Lancet Countdown on health and climate change in Australia was established in 2017 and produced its first national assessment in 2018 and annual updates in 2019, 2020 and 2021. It examines five broad domains: climate change impacts, exposures and vulnerability; adaptation, planning and resilience for health; mitigation actions and health co‐benefits; economics and finance; and public and political engagement. In this, the fifth year of the MJA–Lancet Countdown, we track progress on an extensive suite of indicators across these five domains, accessing and presenting the latest data and further refining and developing our analyses. Within just two years, Australia has experienced two unprecedented national catastrophes — the 2019–2020 summer heatwaves and bushfires and the 2021–2022 torrential rains and flooding. Such events are costing lives and displacing tens of thousands of people. Further, our analysis shows that there are clear signs that Australia’s health emergency management capacity substantially decreased in 2021. We find some signs of progress with respect to health and climate change. The states continue to lead the way in health and climate change adaptation planning, with the Victorian plan being published in early 2022. At the national level, we note progress in health and climate change research funding by the National Health and Medical Research Council. We now also see an acceleration in the uptake of electric vehicles and continued uptake of and employment in renewable energy. However, we also find Australia’s transition to renewables and zero carbon remains unacceptably slow, and the Australian Government’s continuing failure to produce a national climate change and health adaptation plan places the health and lives of Australians at unnecessary risk today, which does not bode well for the future.

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“…33 Opportunities to include mental health indicators in research assessing climate change impacts on health are worthy of exploration. 33…”

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The 2022 report of theMJA–LancetCountdown on health and climate change: Australia unprepared and paying the price

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McGushin

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Medical Journal of Australia

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“…Anthropogenic behaviors, including urbanization and expansion of heat islands, have been producing a cascading and compounding series of effects, including detrimental impacts on human health, including mental health and cognitive functioning ( 80 , 81 ). However, the role of climate change on sleep and sleeping habits has not been yet comprehensively explored.…”

Section: The Impact Of Climate Change On Sleep: the Effects Of The Ri...mentioning

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Planetary sleep medicine: Studying sleep at the individual, population, and planetary level

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Garbarino

Puce

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Front. Public Health

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Circadian rhythms are a series of endogenous autonomous oscillators that are generated by the molecular circadian clock which coordinates and synchronizes internal time with the external environment in a 24-h daily cycle (that can also be shorter or longer than 24 h). Besides daily rhythms, there exist as well other biological rhythms that have different time scales, including seasonal and annual rhythms. Circadian and other biological rhythms deeply permeate human life, at any level, spanning from the molecular, subcellular, cellular, tissue, and organismal level to environmental exposures, and behavioral lifestyles. Humans are immersed in what has been called the “circadian landscape,“ with circadian rhythms being highly pervasive and ubiquitous, and affecting every ecosystem on the planet, from plants to insects, fishes, birds, mammals, and other animals. Anthropogenic behaviors have been producing a cascading and compounding series of effects, including detrimental impacts on human health. However, the effects of climate change on sleep have been relatively overlooked. In the present narrative review paper, we wanted to offer a way to re-read/re-think sleep medicine from a planetary health perspective. Climate change, through a complex series of either direct or indirect mechanisms, including (i) pollution- and poor air quality-induced oxygen saturation variability/hypoxia, (ii) changes in light conditions and increases in the nighttime, (iii) fluctuating temperatures, warmer values, and heat due to extreme weather, and (iv) psychological distress imposed by disasters (like floods, wildfires, droughts, hurricanes, and infectious outbreaks by emerging and reemerging pathogens) may contribute to inducing mismatches between internal time and external environment, and disrupting sleep, causing poor sleep quantity and quality and sleep disorders, such as insomnia, and sleep-related breathing issues, among others. Climate change will generate relevant costs and impact more vulnerable populations in underserved areas, thus widening already existing global geographic, age-, sex-, and gender-related inequalities.

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“…Despite mounting data, new warnings, and innovative approaches, indications of harmful global change continue to climb, making climate change science a tragic field. [11] (Massazza, 2022) We then highlight areas, such as intervention research, Potential areas where new methods may need to be implemented in the near future include climate change assessments and the collection of mental health metrics. Both public mental health and environmental epidemiology frameworks are drawn upon in this article.…”

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Climate Change Forecasting using Machine Learning Algorithms

Vishvakarma¹

2022

IJRASET

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This is an extremely contentious subject of study as many people across the world don't believe that humans are responsible for climate change. There will be an urgent requirement for adaptation as a result of the effects of climate change on human society, as this is the only way that humans can hope to survive the increasingly chaotic weather of the future. The rapid development of machine learning (ML) algorithms has sparked innovations in numerous fields of study and has even been proposed as improving climate studies. Since global warming has an effect on not just people but also on many other kinds of animals, efforts to bring it down may benefit everyone on Earth. To examine the global climate's development since 1800, we use machine learning methods. From land average temperature to land average temperature uncertainty (95% CI around the mean), land maximum temperature to land average temperature uncertainty, land minimum temperature to land average temperature uncertainty, land and ocean average temperature to land and ocean average temperature uncertainty, and more. Kaggle datasets show a wide range of temperature change metrics since 1750. Another dataset measures the average worldwide concentration of carbon monoxide since 1958; it was compiled by the Earth System Research Laboratory of the United States Government. We propose focusing equally on machine learning and artificial intelligence to better interpret and profit from current data and simulation. Our findings provide insight into the difficulties and potential benefits of data-driven climate modeling, particularly about the future integration of increasingly enormous model datasets.

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Quantitative methods for climate change and mental health research: current trends and future directions

Cited by 28 publications

References 147 publications

The 2022 report of theMJA–LancetCountdown on health and climate change: Australia unprepared and paying the price

The 2022 report of theMJA–LancetCountdown on health and climate change: Australia unprepared and paying the price

Planetary sleep medicine: Studying sleep at the individual, population, and planetary level

Climate Change Forecasting using Machine Learning Algorithms

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