Mental health and climate change: policy brief
This policy brief describes the interconnections between climate change and mental health, and provides five key recommendations on potential approaches to address the mental health impacts of the climate crisis.
The world faces an incredible climate crisis. Climate change exacerbates many social, environmental and economic risk factors for problems in mental health and psychosocial wellbeing. Yet, despite this impact, large gaps also exist in many countries between mental health needs and the availability and accessibility of the mental health systems and services to address them.
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