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Review
. 2020 Jul;208(7):559-565.
doi: 10.1097/NMD.0000000000001162.

Climate Change and Risk of Completed Suicide

Caroline Dumont  1 , Elizabeth Haase, Trygve Dolber  2 , Janet Lewis  3 , John Coverdale  4
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Review

Climate Change and Risk of Completed Suicide

Caroline Dumont et al. J Nerv Ment Dis. 2020 Jul.

Abstract

Climate change is increasingly recognized as having multiple adverse mental health effects, many of which are just beginning to be understood. The elevated rates of suicides observed in some communities affected by climate change and rising rates of suicide in the United States as climate change intensifies have suggested the two may be associated. We searched PubMed and PsycInfo using the terms climate change and suicide, and provide here a review of the current literature on climate change and suicide that explores possible associations and methodological issues and challenges in this research.

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