Climate Change–Related Water Disasters’ Impact on Population Health

Veenema, Tener Goodwin; Thornton, Clifton P.; Lavin, Roberta Proffitt; Bender, Annah K.; Seal, Stella; Corley, Andrew

doi:10.1111/jnu.12328

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“…Other susceptibility factors for mental illness related to these events include: women, the young or elderly age, having a disability, being part of an ethnic or linguistic minority, living in a household with a female head and having lower level of schooling. Among residents and relief workers, having limited resources or living in lower income countries are additional risk factors (77). The disaster can only exacerbate any existing barriers in the access of mental health care in the population (78).…”

Section: Floodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impact of Climate Change on Mental Health: A Systematic Descriptive Review

Cianconi¹,

Betrò²,

2020

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Background: Climate change is one of the great challenges of our time. The consequences of climate change on exposed biological subjects, as well as on vulnerable societies, are a concern for the entire scientific community. Rising temperatures, heat waves, floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, droughts, fires, loss of forest, and glaciers, along with disappearance of rivers and desertification, can directly and indirectly cause human pathologies that are physical and mental. However, there is a clear lack in psychiatric studies on mental disorders linked to climate change. Methods: Literature available on PubMed, EMBASE, and Cochrane library until end of June 2019 were reviewed. The total number of articles and association reports was 445. From these, 163 were selected. We looked for the association between classical psychiatric disorders such as anxiety schizophrenia, mood disorder and depression, suicide, aggressive behaviors, despair for the loss of usual landscape, and phenomena related to climate change and extreme weather. Review of literature was then divided into specific areas: the course of change in mental health, temperature, water, air pollution, drought, as well as the exposure of certain groups and critical psychological adaptations. Results: Climate change has an impact on a large part of the population, in different geographical areas and with different types of threats to public health. However, the delay in studies on climate change and mental health consequences is an important aspect. Lack of literature is perhaps due to the complexity and novelty of this issue. It has been shown that climate change acts on mental health with different timing. The phenomenology of the effects of climate change differs greatly-some mental disorders are common and others more specific in relation to atypical climatic conditions. Moreover, climate change also affects different population groups who are directly exposed and more vulnerable in their geographical conditions, as well as a lack of access to resources, information, and protection. Perhaps it is also worth underlining that in some papers the connection between climatic events and mental disorders was described through the introduction of new terms, coined only recently: ecoanxiety, ecoguilt, ecopsychology, ecological grief, solastalgia, biospheric concern, etc. Conclusions: The effects of climate change can be direct or indirect, short-term or longterm. Acute events can act through mechanisms similar to that of traumatic stress, leading

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Section: Floodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Impact of Climate Change on Mental Health: A Systematic Descriptive Review

Cianconi¹,

Betrò²,

2020

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“…In fact, the intensity and frequency of hurricanes, cyclones, tropical storms, and floods are increasing and likely the direct result of global warming. 85 Any major disaster, whether natural or manmade, has the potential to place renal patients in jeopardy. The best approach in predicted disasters is for individuals who were previously dialysis-dependent to evacuate early to locations where dialysis care can be reliably provided.…”

Section: Resultsmentioning

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Renal Failure Patients in Disasters

Lempert

Kopp

2019

Disaster med. public health prep.

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Disasters occur regularly, and frequently large numbers of patients treated with maintenance dialysis or with the recent onset of acute kidney injury are put at risk owing to the lack of access to dialysis care precipitating also a kidney failure disaster. The absence of necessary dialysis treatments can result in excessive emergency department visits, hospitalizations, morbidity, or an early death. Those with kidney failure are often evaluated in disaster medical locations or hospitals without nephrologists in attendance. Here we offer guidance for medical personnel evaluating such patients so that dialysis-dependent individuals can be properly assessed and managed with the need for urgent dialysis recognized. A disaster dialysis triage system is proposed. (Disaster Med Public Health Preparedness. 2019;13:782–790)

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“…Conceptual model development to understand the predictors and consequences of the human biological response to increasing heat environments; farmworkers exposed to the hazard of heightened heat stress because of global warming require public health interventions to keep them safe and healthy as the climate continues to change Climate change‐related water disasters have devastating impacts on affected communities and residents’ health; nurses must be at the forefront of advocating disaster preparedness, environmental health policies, and developing mitigation plans related to secondary environmental toxin exposure The roles of nurses in weather‐related disaster preparedness require hands‐on preparation across schools and practice settings that prepare the nurse to respond to a number of potential occurrences; debriefing about these events is key to learning and advancing disaster preparedness strategies .…”

Section: The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: Opportunitmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Climate change‐related water disasters have devastating impacts on affected communities and residents’ health; nurses must be at the forefront of advocating disaster preparedness, environmental health policies, and developing mitigation plans related to secondary environmental toxin exposure …”

Section: The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals: Opportunitmentioning

confidence: 99%

The case for a paradigm shift: from global to planetary nursing

Rosa

Upvall

2018

Nurs Forum

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The purpose of this paper is to propose a paradigm shift from "global nursing" toward "planetary nursing" to more effectively engage worldwide health initiatives, such as the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. Such a shift expands the understanding of "health" from a phenomenon focused solely on humanity toward one of interdependent animal, environment, and overall planetary well-being, recalibrating the future roles and responsibilities of nursing accordingly. While there is limited data that discusses nursing-focused contributions to planetary health, the advancement of planetary nursing has been the focus of scholarly dialogue. Knowledge regarding the planet's systems, species, ecosystems, and myriad environmental dimensions must be integrated throughout nursing education to be translated to practice and social justice initiatives. As the profession deepens collaborations with international policymakers, nurses will become integral to advancing planetary health through social justice and health equity efforts.Nursing research must evolve to contribute to the goal of planetary health for the next generation and beyond. Ultimately, these authors call for a shift toward One Mind-One Health-One Planet to move the disciplinary stance from one of "global nursing" to a more expansive view of "planetary nursing" in alignment with initiatives to promote and sustain planetary health. K E Y W O R D S global health, global nursing, planetary citizenship, planetary health, Sustainable Development Goals 1 | INTRODUCTION The rapid evolution of global health needs reflects vast opportunities for nursing to impact individual, family, community, and population health. Nursing is well-positioned to make a paradigm shift from the procurement of human-and society-focused health and well-being toward the promotion of planetary resilience and sustainability. The Rockefeller Foundation-Lancet Commission on Planetary Health urges health care workers of the planet's dwindling capacity to sustain the growing human population, acknowledging planetary health "…is based on the understanding that human health and civilization depend on flourishing natural systems and the wise stewardship of those systems." 1(p1974) It is wellnoted that by integrating the planetary health agendas of our time into nursing curricula, 2 shifting our understanding of "health" from a humanbased phenomenon to one aligned with planetary thriving, 3 and promoting nursing-and midwifery-led research that is inclusive of planetary well-being, 4 the profession can fulfill its social contract with the communities it serves, from local to planetary. The purpose herein is to propose a paradigm shift from "global nursing," which has been used as a way to describe nursing's role in global health endeavors, toward "planetary nursing," which invites new and broader possibilities for nursing to engage worldwide health initiatives related to planetary health, such as the United Nations (UN) 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. 5 This concept of "planetar...

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Climate Change–Related Water Disasters’ Impact on Population Health

Abstract: Nurses comprise the largest global healthcare workforce and are in a position to advocate for disaster preparedness for CCRWDs, develop more robust environmental health policies, and work towards mitigating exposure to environmental toxins that may threaten human health.

Cited by 66 publications

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The Impact of Climate Change on Mental Health: A Systematic Descriptive Review

The Impact of Climate Change on Mental Health: A Systematic Descriptive Review

Renal Failure Patients in Disasters

The case for a paradigm shift: from global to planetary nursing

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