Temperature and mental health: Evidence from the spectrum of mental health outcomes
Temperature and mental health: Evidence from the spectrum of mental health outcomes
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DOI：
10.1016/j.jhealeco.2019.102240
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发表时间：
2019-12-01
影响因子：
3.5
通讯作者：
White, Corey
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作者：
Mullins, Jamie T.;White, Corey
本文描述了环境温度和一系列心理健康结果之间的联系。我们发现，较高的温度增加了精神疾病，自杀和自我报告的精神健康状况不佳的急诊室就诊次数。具体来说，寒冷的温度会减少负面的心理健康结果，而炎热的温度会增加它们。我们的估计没有显示出适应的证据，相反，温度关系在时间、基线气候、空调普及率、精神卫生服务的可及性和其他因素方面是稳定的。结果的特点表明，温度对心理健康的影响与身体健康非常不同，与其他心理和行为结果更相似。我们提供了暗示性证据，证明睡眠中断是我们研究结果背后的一种积极机制，并讨论了我们的研究结果对精神卫生服务分配和气候变化的影响。(C)2019 Elsevier B.V.版权所有。
This paper characterizes the link between ambient temperatures and a broad set of mental health outcomes. We find that higher temperatures increase emergency department visits for mental illness, suicides, and self-reported days of poor mental health. Specifically, cold temperatures reduce negative mental health outcomes while hot temperatures increase them. Our estimates reveal no evidence of adaptation, instead the temperature relationship is stable across time, baseline climate, air conditioning penetration rates, accessibility of mental health services, and other factors. The character of the results suggests that temperature affects mental health very differently than physical health, and more similarly to other psychological and behavioral outcomes. We provide suggestive evidence for sleep disruption as an active mechanism behind our results and discuss the implications of our findings for the allocation of mental health services and in light of climate change. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.