Climate Change and Mental Healthdoi:10.1001/jama.2024.1839CLIMATE change & healthThis JAMA Insights discusses the adverse effects of climate change on mental health and proposes solutions to help mitigate those effects.Clayton, SusanBrown, Lily A....
2 Climate change can also contribute to population displacement and migration, with negative effects on health and well-being. We introduce a new JAMA Insights series intended to inform clinicians about how climate change affects diagnoses, treatment, medical practice, and population health. Climate ...
This issue includes aJAMAInsights article titled “Introduction toJAMAClimate Change and Health Series” that discusses how climate change has been linked to changes in the prevention, incidence, and treatment of human diseases. The article by Drs Ebi and Hess represents the first in a series ofJ...
A cross-sectional survey based on a random sample of physicians working in Swedish primary healthcare. Results Approximately one-quarter of the respondents were discontented with their current job. Discontent was negatively associated with poor general health and change fatigue among the respondents; soc...
Our climate has significantly changed, exceeding what the world has experienced over the last 650,000 years, and has been cited as the most significant health threat of the twenty-first century. Climate change is impacting health in unprecedented ways. While everyone is vulnerable to the health ...
2020) were authored by a diverse group of internationally recognized experts from various fields ofmental healthand the behavioral sciences who have explored the various issues involved in the understanding, assessment, and management of anxiety-related problems arising in the context of climate change....
Climate change is leading to a rise in heat-related illnesses, vector-borne diseases, and numerous negative impacts on patients’ physical and mental health outcomes. Concurrently, healthcare contributes about 4.6% of global greenhouse gas emissions. Low-value care, such as overtesting and overdiagno...
University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA; 5Department of Natural Resources and Society, University of Idaho, Coeur d'Alene, ID, USA Abstract: Climate change is increasingly recognized for its impacts on human health, including how biotic and abiotic factors are driving shifts in infectious...
Climate change may also be associated with risks to mental health, including increased stress, anxiety, and depression. As extreme weather occurs with greater frequency, threats to health are associated with the traumas of natural disasters, which bring loss of life and the destruction of community...
JAMA Cardiology. Conflict of Interest Disclosures: Chris Zielinski receives consulting fees from the UK Health Alliance on Climate Change. Paul Yonga receives honoraria from Novartis, bioMerieux, and Pfizer, advisory board fees from Pfizer, and fees for serving on a DSMB from the US National ...