Declines in mental health associated with air pollution and temperature variability in China.

ABSTRACT: Mental disorders have been associated with various aspects of anthropogenic change to the environment, but the relative effects of different drivers are uncertain. Here we estimate associations between multiple environmental factors (air quality, residential greenness, mean temperature, and temperature variability) and self-assessed mental health scores for over 20,000 Chinese residents. Mental health scores were surveyed in 2010 and 2014, allowing us to link changes in mental health to the changes in environmental variables. Increases in air pollution and temperature variability are associated with higher probabilities of declined mental health. Mental health is statistically unrelated to mean temperature in this study, and the effect of greenness on mental health depends on model setting

SUBMITTER: Xue T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6520357 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature