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Health psychology at the age of Anthropocene
This commentary argues that health psychology, as a scientific discipline, needs to address the negative consequences of Anthropocene by helping individuals, communities and health systems to produce proactive efforts and prepare effective responses strategies for climate change consequences. The co...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8114348/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34040847 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21642850.2019.1617150 |
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description | This commentary argues that health psychology, as a scientific discipline, needs to address the negative consequences of Anthropocene by helping individuals, communities and health systems to produce proactive efforts and prepare effective responses strategies for climate change consequences. The commentary addresses the following questions: How to demarcate health psychology at Anthropocene age? What are the best mitigation and adaptation behaviors for health and environment? How to help the environmental migrants and future climate refugees? How to develop a more resilient and adapted health care systems? Should we be in and out of health psychology? In conclusion, health psychologists and academics have to move forward helping individuals, communities and health systems to radically develop lower-carbon lifestyles in a sustainable society. |
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spelling | pubmed-81143482021-05-25 Health psychology at the age of Anthropocene Bernard, P. Health Psychol Behav Med Commentary This commentary argues that health psychology, as a scientific discipline, needs to address the negative consequences of Anthropocene by helping individuals, communities and health systems to produce proactive efforts and prepare effective responses strategies for climate change consequences. The commentary addresses the following questions: How to demarcate health psychology at Anthropocene age? What are the best mitigation and adaptation behaviors for health and environment? How to help the environmental migrants and future climate refugees? How to develop a more resilient and adapted health care systems? Should we be in and out of health psychology? In conclusion, health psychologists and academics have to move forward helping individuals, communities and health systems to radically develop lower-carbon lifestyles in a sustainable society. Routledge 2019-05-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8114348/ /pubmed/34040847 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21642850.2019.1617150 Text en © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) ), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Commentary Bernard, P. Health psychology at the age of Anthropocene |
title | Health psychology at the age of Anthropocene |
title_full | Health psychology at the age of Anthropocene |
title_fullStr | Health psychology at the age of Anthropocene |
title_full_unstemmed | Health psychology at the age of Anthropocene |
title_short | Health psychology at the age of Anthropocene |
title_sort | health psychology at the age of anthropocene |
topic | Commentary |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8114348/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34040847 http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21642850.2019.1617150 |
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