Usher, Kim

Durkin, Joanne

Bhullar, Navjot

2019-12

You would be hard-pressed in 2019 not to be aware of the worldwide social movement and protests relating to climate change. In September this year, millions of school children and adults around the world took to the street demanding urgent action in response to escalating concerns relating to the environment. Furthermore, the United Nations Climate Summit in New York described climate change as the defining issue of our time and the Australian Medical Association recently declared climate change as a health emergency following the lead of many international medical bodies. Clearly, our climate is changing; we are experiencing weather events that are more frequent and intense, and last longer (Jackman et al. 2018). As a result, all health professionals have an important role to play in this regard in the future.

International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 28(6), p. 1233-1234

1447-0349

1445-8330

https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/27908

en

Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia

Eco-Anxiety: How thinking about climate change-related environmental decline is affecting our mental health

Journal Article

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