Building Mental Wellness and Psychosocial Resilience for Climate Change

American Public Health Association. 06/12/2017 This one-hour, 52-minute webinar discusses long-term strategies needed to cope with the strain that rising, ongoing climate change has on mental health and psychosocial well-being. Speakers illustrate how public health professionals can help build widespread resilience for the traumas and toxic stresses of climate change. Topics include extreme weather events, chronic health conditions caused by climate change, and food insecurity. (Video or Multimedia)

Source: Disaster Lit: Resource Guide for Disaster Medicine and Public Health - June 30, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Authors: The U.S. National Library of Medicine Source Type: news