How a changing environment is reshaping mental health: international commission sets out a 10-year action plan - Africa Health Research Institute
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An international commission of more than 20 experts is calling on governments, city authorities and research funders to make brain and mental health a standard measure of environmental, urban and climate policy. The Earth Brain Health Commission also sets a goal for the next decade: no major environmental intervention should be planned or evaluated without considering its effects on mental health. Its report is published in Nature Mental Health.
The commission finds that climate and weather extremes, air and noise pollution, urban stressors, biodiversity loss and widening social inequality are associated with increased risks of anxiety, depression, trauma-related disorders and cognitive decline. These exposures rarely occur in isolation. They cluster in the same places and populations, and act together through biological, psychological and social pathways across the life course, from prenatal development through old age.
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