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Mental health and disaster risk

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Introduction

While much discussion revolves around the physical effects of disasters, mental health can also be harmed after a calamity. These resources explore the effects of disasters on mental health and good practices for reducing negative impacts.

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Climate-related disasters leave behind trauma and worse mental health. Housing uncertainty is a major reason why

Australia, the world’s driest inhabited continent, is particularly vulnerable to climate-related disasters such as droughts, bushfires, storms and floods. In 2020, we were one of the top ten nations in the world for economic damage caused by disasters.
Conversation Media Group, the
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Documents and publications
2023

Disaster mental health risk reduction: Appraising disaster mental health research as if risk mattered

This editorial examines current disaster mental health research through a disaster risk lens to facilitate knowledge integration and further strengthen, expand, and harness the contribution of this body of research for DRR and Health EDRM.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (MDPI)
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Supporting mental health through disaster prevention

Imagining a disaster is scary. Contemplating death, disruption, and devastation can adversely affect our mental health. How could disaster game psychology make stopping disasters fun, effective, and inspiring?
Psychology Today
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The mental toll of climate change

Researchers are more quickly acknowledging the many ways in which the global climate crisis is affecting our mental health.
Eos - AGU
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Documents and publications
2023

Long-term apparent temperature, extreme temperature exposure, and depressive symptoms: a longitudinal study in China

Based on the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS), this study estimated associations between long-term apparent temperature, extreme temperature, and depressive symptoms in middle-aged and older adults.
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (MDPI)
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Documents and publications
2023

Physical and mental health status of women in disaster-affected areas in Bangladesh

This study aimed to explore the physical and mental health status and associated risk factors of women in recurrent disaster-affected areas of Bangladesh.
Natural Hazards (Springer)
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Mental illness can be deadly during heat waves

Schizophrenia topped the list of conditions associated with death during the 2021 extreme heat event in British Columbia
Eos - AGU
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New study finds people with schizophrenia were at higher risk during B.C.’s 2021 heat dome

New study published in GeoHealth looks at health risks for people with chronic conditions during extreme heat events.
BC Center for disease control
Destructed coast by Hurricane Ian which hit the USA in September 2022.
Research briefs

Risk of death for people with dementia increases after a hurricane exposure

The risk of death rises among older adults with Alzheimer’s or other dementias in the months following exposure to a hurricane, a new University of Michigan study shows.
University of Michigan
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Disaster survivors need help remaining connected with friends and families – and access to mental health care

Survivors of disasters like these earthquakes need food, water, and other goods. But they also need psychological first aid – that is, immediate mental health counseling along with support that strengthens their connections with their friends, relatives.
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