GH012
Mental Health and Conflict Consequences of Extreme Weather and Climate Events: Identifying Pathways, Challenges, and Interventions
Session ID#: 160098
Session Description:
Mental disorder rates are on the rise worldwide and projected to cost the global economy $16 trillion by 2030. Concurrently, the likelihood of weather-related disasters and extreme events (such as hurricanes, droughts and wildfires) is increasing in the context of climate change. Climate-related exposures can harm individuals by directly disrupting the environment they live in and also produce indirect lingering psychological distress through many pathways. These âpsychological footprintsâ may lead to anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder, and disproportionately impact economically disadvantaged and marginalized communities. At sub-national to national scales, climate variations and extremes have long been hypothesized to drive or exacerbate civil conflict, and studies are beginning to quantify these relationships. This session aims to increase awareness of the mental health and conflict consequences of extreme weather and climate events by exploring emerging research, social and scientific challenges in identifying health and political outcomes, worldwide responses, and interventions.
Index Terms:
0230 Impacts of climate change: human health [GEOHEALTH]
0240 Public health [GEOHEALTH]
Primary Convener: Azar Mohammad Abadi, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Environmental, Agricultural, and Occupational Health, Omaha, NE, United States
Conveners: Jane Wilson Baldwin, University of California, Irvine, Department of Earth System Science, Irvine, United States and Robbie M Parks, Columbia University, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, United States
Association Between Drought Exposure and Risk of Suicide in the United States from 2000 to 2018 (1090572)
Azar Mohammad Abadi1, Siddhi Munde1, Babak Jalalzadeh Fard2, Yeongjin Gwon3, Jesse D. Berman4 and Jesse E Bell5, (1)University of Nebraska Medical Center, Environmental, Agricultural, and Occupational Health, Omaha, NE, United States, (2)University of Nebraska at Omaha, Omaha, United States, (3)University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE, United States, (4)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, School of Public Health, Minneapolis, United States, (5)University of Nebraska Medical Center, Environmental, Agricultural and Occupational Health, Omaha, United States
Direct exposure to climate hazards and its impact on eco-anxiety, climate emotions, and thoughts about the future in US youth: a national survey (Invited) (1097230)
Ans Vercammen, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia, Yoshika Crider, Stanford University, Stanford, United States, Britt Wray, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States and Emma Lawrance, Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
How effectively do heatwave definitions capture mental health outcomes? A population-based longitudinal investigation from rural Australia (1145229)
Tuyen T Luong1, Tonelle Handley2, Emma Austin1, Anthony Kiem3, Jane L Rich4 and Brian Kelly5, (1)Centre for Resources Health and Safety (CRHS) & Centre for Water, Climate and Land (CWCL), University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia, (2)Centre for Rural and Remote Mental Health (CRRMH), University of Newcastle, Orange, NSW, Australia, (3)Centre for Water, Climate and Land (CWCL), University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia, (4)Centre for Brain and Mental Health Research, University of Newcastle, Callaghan, NSW, Australia, (5)University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia
Rising temperatures and alcohol- and substance-related disorder hospitalizations (1175042)
Robbie M Parks1, Sebastian T Rowland1, Vivian Do1, Amelia K Boehme2, Francesca Dominici3, Carl L Hart4 and Marianthi-Anna Kioumourtzoglou1, (1)Columbia University, Department of Environmental Health Sciences, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, United States, (2)Columbia University, Department of Neurology, New York, United States, (3)Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, United States, (4)Columbia University of New York, Department of Psychology, New York, United States
Negative hazard experiences, climate anxiety, PTSD, and pro-environmental action and attitudes (Invited) (1200972)
Dana Rose Garfin, University of California Los Angeles, Community Health Sciences, Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, United States and Gabrielle Wong-Parodi, Stanford University, Department of Earth System Science, Stanford, CA, United States
