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Mental Health Articles and Research

2024

Drought impact on peri-urban farmers' mental health in semi-arid Ghana

The study in Environmental Development interviewed farmers in a drought region in Ghana and assessed different mental health outcomes including depression, stress and anxiety as well as looking at protective strategies.

2018

Addressing Mental Health in a Changing Climate

This review in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health looks at how to incorporate mental health into vulnerability and adaptation assessments to help teach public health leaders about this intersection. Over 276 articles were assessed in drawing these connections.

2023

Climate change mental health and wellbeing: privileging Pacific peoples' perspectives

This article in Climate and Development used a consensus panel approach in this phase amongst a group of Pacific climate change and/or mental health experts to hone done the most important topics and issues for the region on the connection of climate change and mental health.

2023

Climate Change and Mental Health- Time to act now

This opinion piece in JAMA Psychiatry stresses the need to address the limited research on mental health impacts from climate event, as well reinforcing the connection to population inequalities in mental health and the interconnectedness with emergency preparedness.

2018

The case for systems thinking about climate change and mental health

The article in Nature Climate Change outlines the current thinking regarding making mental health issue related to climate change a priority. A systems based approach is proposed to help alleviate some of the limitations in current trends and societal attitudes as well as frame future research.

2022

Women's mental health and climate change Part II: Socio economic stresses of climate change and eco-anxiety for women and their children

This narrative review in the International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology discusses the increased temperature and violence correlation and how this impacts women's mental health. Natural disasters, climate migration, eco anxiety, and climate determinants of health are detailed in their relation to the mental health of women.

2022

Mental health and climate change in Africa

This thematic paper in BJPsych International gives a background of climate change impacts in Africa on mental health, offering coping and adaptation strategies.

2023

Climate change, extreme events and mental health in the Pacific region

This paper in the International Journal of Climate Change Strategies and Management reviews studies that have linked climate change to extreme weather events in a region that is extreme prone to these type of events. This connection is then linked to mental health tracing which aspects of the events caused these stressors based on actual events in the region.

2024

German survey of pediatric health professionals on climate change and mental health

This survey study in BMC Public Health created and distributed a questionnaire to pediatricians, psychiatrists, therapists and school professionals to ascertain their understanding and observations of mental health effects in children from climate change.

2023

The nature- climate change- mental health nexus: A literature review

This literature review in from the Ecologic Institute defines the scope of climate change effects on mental health and breaks down specific causes and demographics. The relationship between nature and mental health is explored and identification of knowledge gaps are listed.

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