ANTH 266 Chapter Notes - Chapter 10: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychiatric Hospital
19 Mar 2019
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Exposure to hurricanes and floods is associated with symptoms of acute depression as well as posttraumatic stress disorder. Both heat and drought amplify the risk of suicide. Psychiatric hospital visits increase during hotter temperatures. Those with preexisting mental health conditions and lower socioeconomic status are among the most vulnerable to adverse environmental conditions. Measured 2,000 individuals randomly selected to test. Three types of environmental stressors likely to be produced by climate change: Anthropogenic warming is likely to present humans with increasingly extreme meteorological conditions in any given year. Climate change is likely to increase the rates of year-over-year and decade-over-decade warming of local climates and the chronic stressors that such warming produces. Climate change is likely to amplify the frequency and intensity of acute climatic events. Exogenous increases in monthly temperature and added precipitation days each amplify the monthly probability of experiencing mental health issues.
