Nature Communications (May 2019)

Declines in mental health associated with air pollution and temperature variability in China

  • Tao Xue,
  • Tong Zhu,
  • Yixuan Zheng,
  • Qiang Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-10196-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Recent efforts to link mental health to environmental factors have focused on single predictors such as pollution or temperature anomalies. Here, the authors show that declines in self-assessed mental health scores were linked to increases in air pollution and temperature variability.