The largely unacknowledged impact of climate change on mental health
The largely unacknowledged impact of climate change on mental health
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DOI：
10.1080/00963402.2016.1216505
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发表时间：
2016-09-01
影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
Gifford, Robert
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作者：
Gifford, Eva;Gifford, Robert
在大众媒体对气候变化的所有报道中，有一个方面受到的关注相对较少：心理健康。由气候变化引起的海平面上升、日益强烈的风暴和更加严重的干旱不仅对物质基础设施造成了毁灭性的破坏，而且还在其他方面影响着人类：人们失去了家园、工作、家人和社区。研究人员发现，气候变化不仅会导致因卡特里娜飓风等极端天气事件而流离失所的创伤后应激障碍（PTSD），还会导致创伤前应激障碍，即对即将到来的危机的中度至极度焦虑。本文描述了其中的一些影响，哪些人最容易受到影响，涉及的一些社会因素，并提出了一些可能的解决方案。
In all of the coverage of climate change in the popular press, relatively little attention has been paid to one aspect: mental health. Rising seawaters, increasingly strong storms, and more ferocious droughts caused by climate change are not only devastating to physical infrastructure but also affect human beings in other ways as well: people lose their homes, their jobs, their family members, and their communities. Researchers have found that climate change can cause not only posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from the trauma of displacement from extreme weather events such as Hurricane Katrina but also pre-traumatic stress disorder, or, moderate to extreme anxiety about a looming crisis. This paper describes some of these effects, who is most vulnerable to them, some of the social factors involved, and offers some suggestions for possible solutions.