Climate change and mental health: a causal pathways framework

HL Berry, K Bowen, T Kjellstrom - International journal of public health, 2010 - Springer
Objectives Climate change will bring more frequent, long lasting and severe adverse
weather events and these changes will affect mental health. We propose an explanatory …

Living in cities, naturally

T Hartig, PH Kahn Jr - Science, 2016 - science.org
Natural features, settings, and processes in urban areas can help to reduce stress
associated with urban life. In this and other ways, public health benefits from, street trees …

Prevalence of depression in the community from 30 countries between 1994 and 2014

GY Lim, WW Tam, Y Lu, CS Ho, MW Zhang, RC Ho - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
The prevalence of depression may be affected by changes in psychiatric practices and the
availability of online mental health information in the past two decades. This study aimed to …

2007 National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing: methods and key findings

T Slade, A Johnston… - Australian & New …, 2009 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective: To provide a description of the methods and key findings of the 2007 Australian
National Survey of Mental Health and Wellbeing. Method: A national face-to-face household …

Challenging the myth of an “epidemic” of common mental disorders: trends in the global prevalence of anxiety and depression between 1990 and 2010

AJ Baxter, KM Scott, AJ Ferrari… - Depression and …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Background Anxiety disorders and major depressive disorder (MDD) are common and
disabling mental disorders. This paper aims to test the hypothesis that common mental …

Urbanization, urbanicity, and health

D Vlahov, S Galea - Journal of Urban Health, 2002 - Springer
A majority of the world's population will live in urban areas by 2007. The most rapidly
urbanizing cities are in less-wealthy nations, and the pace of growth varies among regions …

[HTML][HTML] A systematic review of the relationship between objective measurements of the urban environment and psychological distress

Y Gong, S Palmer, J Gallacher, T Marsden… - Environment …, 2016 - Elsevier
The urban environment has become the main place that people live and work. As a result it
can have profound impacts on our health. While much of the literature has focused on …

Addressing the health disadvantage of rural populations: how does epidemiological evidence inform rural health policies and research?

KB Smith, JS Humphreys… - Australian journal of rural …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
We reviewed evidence of any apparently significant 'rural‐urban'health status differentials in
developed countries, to determine whether such differentials are generic or nation‐specific …

Meta-principles for develo** smart, sustainable, and healthy cities

A Ramaswami, AG Russell, PJ Culligan, KR Sharma… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Policy directives in several nations are focusing on the development of smart cities, linking
innovations in the data sciences with the goal of advancing human well-being and …

Living environment and its relationship to depressive mood: a systematic review

N Rautio, S Filatova, H Lehtiniemi… - … journal of social …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Background and aims: The notion that environment affects mental health has a long history;
in this systematic review, we aimed to study whether the living environment is related to …