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A review of mental health and wellbeing under climate change in small island developing states (SIDS)

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Kelman, Ilan, Ayeb-Karlsson, Sonja, Rose-Clarke, Kelly, Prost, Audrey, Ronneberg, Espen, Wheeler, Nicola, Watts, Nicholas·2021·Environmental Research Letters
DOI 10.1088/1748-9326/abe57dPMC PMC8208624
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Small island developing states (SIDS) are often at the forefront of climate change impacts, including those related to health, but information on mental health and wellbeing is typically underreported. To help address this research lacuna, this paper reviews research about mental health and wellbeing under climate change in SIDS. Due to major differences in the literature's methodologies, results, and analyses, the method is an overview and qualitative evidence synthesis of peer-reviewed publications. The findings show that mental health and wellbeing in the context of climate change have yet to feature prominently and systematically in research covering SIDS. It seems likely that major adverse mental health and wellbeing impacts linked to climate change impacts will affect SIDS peoples. Similar outcomes might also emerge when discussing climate change related situations, scenarios, and responses, irrespective of what has actually happened thus far due to climate change. In the context of inadequate health systems and stigmatisation of mental health diagnoses and treatments, as tends to occur globally, climate change narratives might present an opening for conversations about addressing mental health and wellbeing issues for SIDS.

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  • Climate breakdown is expected to have devastating impacts on health and wellbeing.

    “The therapist of the future will need to embrace emerging frameworks such as the power threat meaning framework (Johnstone and Boyle, 2018), that support non-anthologizing understandings of different reactions to societal challenges including climate breakdown (Morgan et al., 2022), which is expected to have devastating impacts on health and wellbeing (Fritze et al., 2008; Ellis and Albrecht, 2017”

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    The Introduction says that people in small island developing states are experiencing major health impacts from climate change and that these are expected to worsen rapidly unless action is taken. The physical-health and mental-health sections also describe serious risks. The claim extends this SIDS-focused, conditional assessment to health and wellbeing generally and calls the expected impacts “devastating,” which is stronger than the paper’s overall conclusion. (LLM, conf=0.85)

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Authors
Kelman, I., Ayeb-Karlsson, S., Rose-Clarke, K., Prost, A., Ronneberg, E., Wheeler, N., & Watts, N.
Affiliations
  • University of Agder (NO)
  • University College London (GB)
  • Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (WS)
  • World Health Organization (CH)
  • National Health Service (GB)
Corresponding author
Kelman, Ilan
ORCID
Venue
Environmental Research Letters
Publisher
IOP Publishing
Published
2021-03-01
Volume
16
Issue
3
Pages
033007
ISSN
1748-9326 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1088/1748-9326/abe57d
PMC
PMC8208624
OpenAlex
W3130407780
Cited by
82
References
122
Citations by year
2026: 4 · 2025: 17 · 2024: 21 · 2023: 16 · 2022: 18 · 2021: 6
FWCI
1.45
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Environmental Research Letters (publishedVersion, cc-by)
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  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • UNU Collections (United Nations University) (acceptedVersion)
  • DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (acceptedVersion)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (acceptedVersion)
  • Sussex Research Online (University of Sussex) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • Figshare (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • NORA - Norwegian Open Research Archives (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
Wellcome Trust (200890/Z/16/Z)
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis › Climate Change and Health Impacts
  • Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Climate Change Communication and Perception
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Mental Health Treatment and Access
Keywords
mental health, well-being, climate change, small island developing states, health impacts of climate change, mental health stigma, health system capacity, climate change adaptation, climate change narratives

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