Unequal effects of climate change and pre-existing inequalities on the mental health of global populations

Zhang, Shuo; Braithwaite, Isobel; Bhavsar, Vishal; Das‐Munshi, Jayati

doi:10.1192/bjb.2021.26

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“…Currently, most of the knowledge about the mental-health impacts of climate change has been generated in the Global North using data drawn from samples in Western, educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic societies, especially North America (Berrang-Ford et al 2021), and is therefore not representative of the global majority (Henrich et al, 2010). These inequalities must be acknowledged by stakeholder groups (e.g., governments, health agencies, researchers) so that locally adapted, culturally informed measurement and mitigation efforts can be implemented (Zhang et al, 2021).…”

Section: Participation and Preventionmentioning

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Climate Change and Children’s Mental Health: A Developmental Perspective

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Berry

2021

Clinical Psychological Science

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Climate change is a major global public-health challenge that will have wide-ranging impacts on human psychological health and well-being. Children and adolescents are at particular risk because of their rapidly developing brain, vulnerability to disease, and limited capacity to avoid or adapt to threats and impacts. They are also more likely to worry about climate change than any other age group. Drawing on a developmental life-course perspective, we show that climate-change-related threats can additively, interactively, and cumulatively increase psychopathology risk from conception onward; that these effects are already occurring; and that they constitute an important threat to healthy human development worldwide. We then argue that monitoring, measuring, and mitigating these risks is a matter of social justice and a crucial long-term investment in developmental and mental health sciences. We conclude with a discussion of conceptual and measurement challenges and outline research priorities going forward.

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Section: Participation and Preventionmentioning

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Climate Change and Children’s Mental Health: A Developmental Perspective

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Berry

2021

Clinical Psychological Science

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“…Hinzu kommt, dass die psychische Gesundheit von Menschen, die in Städten oder ärmeren Stadtteilen leben, durch weniger verfügbare Grünflächen, mehr Hitze und Luftverschmutzung häufig besonders gefährdet ist [43,44] -ein Aspekt, der angesichts der zunehmenden Urbanisierung zusätzlich an Relevanz gewinnt. Insgesamt verschärfen sich durch den Klimawandel weltweit bestehende soziale, wirtschaftliche und gesundheitliche Ungleichheiten [45]. Die Kinder und Jugendlichen von heute werden die größte Last der gesundheitlichen Auswirkungen tragen und sind daher in besonderem Maße von einer intergenerationalen Ungerechtigkeit betroffen [46].…”

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Klimawandel und psychische Gesundheit. Positionspapier einer Task-Force der DGPPN

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Meyer‐Lindenberg

2023

Nervenarzt

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ZusammenfassungDer Klimawandel und die damit häufiger auftretenden Extremwetterereignisse wirken sich direkt negativ auf die psychische Gesundheit aus. Naturkatastrophen gehen insbesondere mit einem Anstieg von Depressionen, Angst- und Traumafolgestörungen einher. Indirekte Folgen des Klimawandels wie Nahrungsmittelknappheit, ökonomische Krisen, gewaltvolle Konflikte und unfreiwillige Migration stellen zusätzlich massive psychische Risiko- und Belastungsfaktoren dar. Klimaangst und Solastalgie, die Trauer um verlorenen Lebensraum, sind neue psychische Syndrome angesichts der existenziellen Bedrohung durch die Klimakrise. Eine nachhaltige Psychiatrie muss sich dementsprechend auf steigenden und veränderten Bedarf einstellen. Psychiatrische Behandlungsprinzipien müssen die Prävention stärker in den Blick nehmen, um das Versorgungssystem insgesamt zu entlasten. Ressourcenverschwendung und CO2-Ausstoß im psychiatrischen Behandlungsablauf sowie Infrastruktur müssen wahrgenommen und verhindert werden. Psychiatrische Aus‑, Fort- und Weiterbildungskonzepte sollen um die Thematik des Klimawandels erweitert werden, um Fachkräfte, Betroffene und Öffentlichkeit umfassend zu informieren, zu sensibilisieren und zu klimafreundlichem und gesundheitsförderlichem Verhalten anzuregen. Die Auswirkungen des Klimawandels auf die psychische Gesundheit müssen tiefergehend erforscht werden. Die DGPPN wird Förderer und strebt die Klimaneutralität bis 2030 an. Sie hat sich zu klimaschonenden und energiesparenden Maßnahmen im Bereich der Finanzwirtschaft, in Bezug auf den DGPPN-Kongress sowie die DGPPN-Geschäftsstelle verpflichtet.

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“…18 Lastly, ongoing inaction by resourced people, companies, and governments does further psychological violence in the perennial global, racial, and centuries old pattern of layered inequities. 19 The equity implications of these linkages between climate change, exposures during pregnancy, and the mental health of those who are or have been pregnant is profound. In their statement from the FIGO Committee on Climate Change and Toxic Environmental Exposures, Giudice et al 20 aptly called the climate crisis "a public health issue, a social justice issue, a human rights issue, an economic issue, a political issue, and a gender issue."…”

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“…Outside this “death‐by‐a‐thousand‐cuts” effect of climate change, the specter of climate change alone is also a stressor 18 . Lastly, ongoing inaction by resourced people, companies, and governments does further psychological violence in the perennial global, racial, and centuries old pattern of layered inequities 19 …”

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Mental health and climate change: The critical window of pregnancy

Sheffield

2022

Intl J Gynecology & Obste

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G y n e c o l o g y Mental health and climate change: The critical window of pregnancyThe field of climate and health research began with counting bodies, not unlike many other emerging fields of health research. Death is a clear end point to capture and an important health outcome.However, as a research field matures, often the research spotlight moves to different outcomes; first, to end points like heart attacks or congenital malformations and then to more insidious or subclinical outcomes like cognitive impairment, hormonal signaling, and shifts in mental well-being. The result of this research arc often reveals that the bulk of the health burden of environmental exposures lies in these more common, more insidious, sometimes life-course altering, non-fatal impacts-the proverbial hidden base of the iceberg.Environmental health researchers are also beginning to look not just myopically at single exposures but at mixtures and interactionsthe entire exposome. 1,2 Our understanding of the temporal aspects

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Unequal effects of climate change and pre-existing inequalities on the mental health of global populations

Cited by 13 publications

References 37 publications

Climate Change and Children’s Mental Health: A Developmental Perspective

Climate Change and Children’s Mental Health: A Developmental Perspective

Klimawandel und psychische Gesundheit. Positionspapier einer Task-Force der DGPPN

Mental health and climate change: The critical window of pregnancy

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