Mental Health Consequences of Air and Noise Pollution
A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Health".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 June 2022) | Viewed by 8508
Special Issue Editors
Interests: urbanicity; air pollution; mental health; psychosis; digital health
Interests: urbanicity; neighbourhood characteristics; air pollution; psychosis; psychotic symptoms; mental health; childhood and adolescence; cohort studies; causal inference
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
There is a well-established association between urban environments and mental health. The World Health Organisation (WHO) ranks air pollution as the main environmental cause of premature death with noise pollution second only to magnitude, both being key features of the urban environment. However, the significant potential health and societal costs of poor mental health in relation to air quality and noise are under-represented due to limited evidence and gaps and uncertainties in our knowledge of the potential pathways (green spaces, temperature, neighbourhood deprivation) that drive the reported associations.
There is also a growing body of global evidence that more vulnerable communities are more likely to be exposed to higher air and noise pollution levels. Individuals from low-income backgrounds and residents of more socially disadvantaged areas tend to be exposed to higher levels of air pollutants and noise, which could result in impaired mental health compared with their more affluent counterparts. However, these relationships are complex and mainly driven by different spatio-temporal distributions of environmental features and area-level socioeconomic factors. Yet, few studies have tried to understand the dynamics of environmental inequalities in relation to mental health and provide the appropriate frameworks to public health researchers and policy-makers to understand the public health implications in order to apply mitigation measures.
This Special Issue of the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (IJERPH) invites papers of studies on air and noise pollution and mental health vulnerability at local, regional, and national levels. Observational studies, papers describing population-level health interventions, position papers, systematic reviews, and articles addressing potential mechanisms underlying the association between air and noise pollution and mental health are welcome and expected to add relevant information to our current knowledge.
Dr. Ioannis Bakolis
Dr. Joanne Newbury
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- air pollution
- noise pollution
- particulate matter
- environment
- green space
- neighbourhood deprivation
- socio-economic indicators
- mental disorders
- neurological and psychiatric disorders
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