WHO to Release New Findings on Climate Change and Mental Health
The World Health Organization will release a policy brief on June 3 with new findings on how climate change poses a rising threat to mental health and psychosocial well-being.
“The policy brief highlights five important approaches for governments to address mental health impacts of climate change,” said Carla Drysdale, a global spokesperson from the WHO, during a press conference on Tuesday.
Drysdale said the mental health and climate change policy brief will be launched at the Stockholm+50 conference, an international meeting convened by the United Nations General Assembly, in advance of World Environment Day on June 5.
The brief from the WHO comes after the Department of Health and Human Services’ new Office of Climate Change and Health Equity released an Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report in February, which examines the mental and physical health effects of climate change specifically within the U.S.
The nearly 40-page IPCC report confirms that those who lack proper infrastructure and basic health services suffer the most from changing climatic conditions.
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