Environmental Correlates of Mental Health Measures for Women in Western Australia
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A recent study in Western Australia identified area level associations between soil salinisation and hospital admissions for depression. Our study assessed the quantitative relationship between mental health measures at the individual level and location specific environmental measurements on salinity, as well as two other indicators of environmental degradation and change: land surface temperature and normalised difference vegetation index, a proxy for rainfall. Location-specific environmental measurements were linked to individual mental health scores of women in three age cohorts from the Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health using a geographic information system. Bayesian geostatistical linear regression models were developed to assess associations between environmental exposures and mental health scores of women. In contrast to previous studies using area level measures, our study found no associations between individual level measurements of mental health scores for women in south-west Western Australia and salinity, LST or NDVI.
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We found only one study which examined the mental health impacts of more general and permanent environmental degradation.
“It is these long-term impacts, in particular, which may demand a shift in attention, as we found only one study which examined the mental health impacts of more general and permanent environmental degradation [124].”
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- Authors
- Fearnley, E. J., Magalhães, R. J. S., Speldewinde, P., Weinstein, P., & Dobson, A.
- Affiliations
- The University of Queensland (AU)
- The University of Western Australia (AU)
- Corresponding author
- Speldewinde, Peter
- ORCID
- Venue
- EcoHealth
- Published
- 2014-09-17
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 502-511
- ISSN
- 1612-9202 (ISSN-L)
- 1612-9210
- OpenAlex
- W1968131366
- Cited by
- 8
- References
- 55
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2024: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 1 · 2015: 1
- FWCI
- 0.66
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- EcoHealth (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- UWA Profiles and Research Repository (UWA) (submittedVersion)
- ANU Open Research (Australian National University) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Urban Green Space and Health
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Public Health and Environmental Issues
- Keywords
- mental health, soil salinization, environmental degradation, land surface temperature, NDVI, rainfall, women's health, geographic variation in health, Australian Longitudinal Study on Women's Health, south-west Western Australia
- MeSH terms
- Adult, Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Bayes Theorem, Emotions, Environment, Environmental Exposure, Female, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Longitudinal Studies, Mental Health, Middle Aged, Soil Pollutants, Temperature, Western Australia, Women's Health, Salinity
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