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Climate Change, Pollution, Deforestation, and Mental Health: Research Trends, Gaps, and Ethical Considerations.
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- Global Trends in the Incidence of Anxiety Disorders From 1990 to 2019: Joinpoint and Age-Period-Cohort Analysis Study.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2024Article
- Assessing the Human Health Benefits of Climate Mitigation, Pollution Prevention, and Biodiversity Preservation.Annals of global health · 2024Article
- Geospatial techniques for monitoring and mitigating climate change and its effects on human health.International journal of health geographics · 2023Article
- The mediating role of physical activity and health status between a health-supportive environment and well-being: a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- Circular Medicine - Being Mindful of Resources and Waste Recycling in Healthcare Systems.Risk management and healthcare policy · 2023Article
- Climate Change, Pollution, Deforestation, and Mental Health: Research Trends, Gaps, and Ethical Considerations.GeoHealth · 2022Article
- Climate change and public health research ethics in low- and middle-income countries: A systematic literature review.The journal of climate change and healthArticle
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Abstract
Climate change, pollution, and deforestation have a negative impact on global mental health. There is an environmental justice dimension to this challenge as wealthy people and high-income countries are major contributors to climate change and pollution, while poor people and low-income countries are heavily affected by the consequences. Using state-of-the art data mining, we analyzed and visualized the global research landscape on mental health, climate change, pollution and deforestation over a 15-year period. Metadata of papers were exported from PubMed®, and both relevance and relatedness of terms in different time frames were computed using VOSviewer. Co-occurrence graphs were used to visualize results. The development of exemplary terms over time was plotted separately. The number of research papers on mental health and environmental challenges is growing in a linear fashion. Major topics are climate change, chemical pollution, including psychiatric medication in wastewater, and neurobiological effects. Research on specific psychiatric syndromes and diseases, particularly on their ethical and social aspects is less prominent. There is a growing body of research literature on links between mental health, climate change, pollution, and deforestation. This research provides a graphic overview to mental healthcare professionals and political stakeholders. Social and ethical aspects of the climate change-mental health link have been neglected, and more research is needed.
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