A Systematic Literature Review of the Impact of Climate Change on the Global Demand for Psychiatric Services.

ABSTRACT: Climate Change (CC) imposes important global health risks, including on mental health (MH). They are related mostly to psychological suffering caused by climate-related events and to the heat-vulnerability caused by psychiatric disorders. This growing burden may press MH services worldwide, increasing demand on public and private systems in low-, middle-, and high-income countries. According to PRISMA, two independent reviewers searched four databases for papers published before May 2022 that associated climate-related events with healthcare demand for psychiatric conditions. Of the 7432 papers retrieved, we included 105. Only 29 were carried out in low- and middle-income countries. Twelve related the admission numbers to (i) extreme events, while 93 to (ii) meteorological factors-mostly h

SUBMITTER: Corvetto JF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9858749 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature