This study examines associations between air temperature variables and mental health-related community clinic visits across Nunatsiavut, Labrador, Canada, finding that longer periods of warm temperatures significantly increased mental health clinic visits. Temperature-mental health associations aligned with community participation in land-based activities, and the strength of associations varied by place - suggesting that geography and local context modify how climate change affects mental health. The authors argue that place-based approaches are essential to health policy, planning, adaptation and research responding to climate change in the Circumpolar North.
Temperature and place associations with Inuit mental health in the context of climate change
2021
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This study examines associations between air temperature variables and mental health-related community clinic visits across Nunatsiavut, Labrador, Canada, finding that longer periods of warm temperatures significantly increased mental health clinic visits. Temperature-mental health associations aligned with community participation in land-based activities, and the strength of associations varied by place - suggesting that geography and local context modify how climate change affects mental health. The authors argue that place-based approaches are essential to health policy, planning, adaptation and research responding to climate change in the Circumpolar North.
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