ReviewAnnals of global health2023
Mental Health Impacts of Climate Change Among Vulnerable Populations Globally: An Integrative Review.
Review in Annals of global health, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 54 papers, 5 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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54 citing papers in PubMed, 5 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 106 citations in OpenAlex.
- Impacts of Climate Change and Related Weather Events on the Health and Wellbeing of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Communities: A Systematic Review.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Pooled it
- The impact of climate change on mental health in vulnerable groups: a systematic review.BMC psychology · 2025Pooled it
- A systematic review on the impact of climate change on occupational mental health: a focus on vulnerable industries.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2025Pooled it
- The relationship between climate change and mental health: a systematic review of the association between eco-anxiety, psychological distress, and symptoms of major affective disorders.BMC psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- Climate change and suicide epidemiology: a systematic review and meta-analysis of gender variations in global suicide rates.Frontiers in public health · 2024Pooled it
- One Health - One Planet - One Mind: integrating eco-anxiety into the One Health paradigm.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2026Review
- Trends and Epidemiological Profile of Climate-Related Disasters in Spain between 1950 and 2024.Portuguese journal of public health · 2026Article
- Risk Perceptions of Air Pollution and Climate Anxiety in Residents of High Andean Urban Hillsides: A Hierarchical Regression Analysis.European journal of investigation in health, psychology and education · 2026Article
- Z-topia: Gen Z perspectives on mental health in a changing climate.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026Article
- "We worked … as if nothing was happening": Exploring multilevel burnout experiences and resources among health professionals in the context of compounding disasters in Puerto Rico.Psychological services · 2026Article
- Mental Health Disparities From Climate Change: The Role of Housing Insecurity and LGBTQ+ Identity, California, 2023.American journal of public health · 2026Article
- Climate change and mental health burden among caregivers in California.The Gerontologist · 2026Article
- A review on mental health challenges and interventions in the context of pandemics, terrorism, war and armed conflicts.Discover mental health · 2026Review
- Extreme weather events and pathways to mental health outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa: A systematic review.Climate risk management · 2026Article
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- Psychosocial determinants of solastalgia in children and young people of the Colombian indigenous community Embera Dobidá.SSM - population health · 2026Article
- Uunderstanding the psychological impact of the climate crisis on individuals with depression: a phenomenological study.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- The overlapping effects of climate change and conflict on mental health of vulnerable populations: a scoping review.Conflict and health · 2026Review
- Safeguarding future generations: a One Health perspective on children, climate change, and infectious threats.Frontiers in public health · 2026Review
- Clinical symptoms and risk factors in people with mental disorders: findings from the interRAI emergency screener for psychiatry in Brazil.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
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7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.
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Abstract
Background: Climate change has been shown to be directly linked to multiple physiological sequelae and to impact health consequences. However, the impact of climate change on mental health globally, particularly among vulnerable populations, is less well understood. Objective: To explore the mental health impacts of climate change in vulnerable populations globally. Methods: We performed an integrative literature review to identify published articles that addressed the research question: Findings/Results: One hundred and four articles were selected for inclusion in this review after a comprehensive review of 1828 manuscripts. Articles were diverse in scope and populations addressed. Land-vulnerable persons (either due to occupation or geographic location), Indigenous persons, children, older adults, and climate migrants were among the vulnerable populations whose mental health was most impacted by climate change. The most prevalent mental health responses to climate change included solastalgia, suicidality, depression, anxiety/eco-anxiety, PTSD, substance use, insomnia, and behavioral disturbance. Conclusions: Mental health professionals including physicians, nurses, physician assistants and other healthcare providers have the opportunity to mitigate the mental health impacts of climate change among vulnerable populations through assessment, preventative education and care. An inclusive and trauma-informed response to climate-related disasters, use of validated measures of mental health, and a long-term therapeutic relationship that extends beyond the immediate consequences of climate change-related events are approaches to successful mental health care in a climate-changing world.
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