Pearson Adam R, White Kristi E, Nogueira Leticia M, Lewis Neil A, Green Dorainne J, Schuldt Jonathon P, Edmondson Donald
Department of Psychological Science, Pomona College.
Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota.
Am Psychol. 2023 Feb-Mar;78(2):244-258. doi: 10.1037/amp0001074.
Climate change poses unique and substantial threats to public health and well-being, from heat stress, flooding, and the spread of infectious disease to food and water insecurity, conflict, displacement, and direct health hazards linked to fossil fuels. These threats are especially acute for frontline communities. Addressing climate change and its unequal impacts requires psychologists to consider temporal and spatial dimensions of health, compound risks, as well as structural sources of vulnerability implicated by few other public health challenges. In this review, we consider climate change as a unique context for the study of health inequities and the roles of psychologists and health care practitioners in addressing it. We conclude by discussing the research infrastructure needed to broaden current understanding of these inequities, including new cross-disciplinary, institutional, and community partnerships, and offer six practical recommendations for advancing the psychological study of climate health equity and its societal relevance. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).
气候变化对公众健康和福祉构成了独特而重大的威胁，从热应激、洪水、传染病传播到粮食和水不安全、冲突、流离失所，以及与化石燃料相关的直接健康危害。这些威胁对一线社区尤为严重。应对气候变化及其不平等影响要求心理学家考虑健康的时间和空间维度、复合风险，以及其他公共卫生挑战很少涉及的脆弱性结构根源。在本综述中，我们将气候变化视为研究健康不平等以及心理学家和医疗从业者在应对气候变化中所起作用的独特背景。我们通过讨论拓宽当前对这些不平等现象理解所需的研究基础设施来得出结论，包括新的跨学科、机构和社区伙伴关系，并为推进气候健康公平及其社会相关性的心理学研究提出六项实用建议。（PsycInfo数据库记录（c）2023美国心理学会，保留所有权利）
