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Coming to terms with climate change: a glossary for climate change impacts on mental health and well-being
- Abstract:
- Climate change is a major threat to global health. Its effects on physical health are increasingly recognised, but mental health impacts have received less attention. The mental health effects of climate change can be direct (resulting from personal exposure to acute and chronic climatic changes), indirect (via the impact on various socioeconomic, political and environmental determinants of mental health) and overarching (via knowledge, education and awareness of climate change). These impacts are unequally distributed according to long-standing structural inequities which are exacerbated by climate change. We outline key concepts and pathways through which climate change may affect mental health and explore the responses to climate change at different levels, from emotions to politics, to highlight the need for multilevel action. We provide a broad reference to help guide researchers, practitioners and policy-makers in the use and understanding of different terms in this rapidly growing interdisciplinary field.
- Publication status:
- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher copy:
- 10.1136/jech-2024-222716
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+ Economic and Social Research Council
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- Funder identifier:
- https://ror.org/03n0ht308
- Grant:
- ES/T011343/1
- Publisher:
- BMJ Publishing Group
- Journal:
- Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health More from this journal
- Volume:
- 79
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 295-301
- Place of publication:
- England
- Publication date:
- 2024-12-18
- Acceptance date:
- 2024-11-10
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1470-2738
- ISSN:
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0143-005X
- Pmid:
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39694671
- Language:
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English
- Pubs id:
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2074195
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pubs:2074195
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2025-05-22
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- Niedzwiedz et al
- Copyright date:
- 2025
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- © Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2025. Re-use permitted under CC BY. Published by BMJ Group. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to copy, redistribute, remix, transform and build upon this work for any purpose, provided the original work is properly cited, a link to the licence is given, and indication of whether changes were made.
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