Conference paper
COVID-19, AIR POLLUTION AND MENTAL ILLNESS: HEADS OF THE SAME "BEAST"?
Pierfrancesco Maria Balducci
; Department of Psychiatry, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
Giulia Menculini
; Department of Psychiatry, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
Luigi Attademo
; SPDC Potenza, Department of Mental Health, ASP Basilicata, Potenza, Italy ; Planetary Health Lab, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland
Francesco Bernardini
; Planetary Health Lab, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland ; SPDC Pordenone, Department of Mental Health, AsFO Friuli Occidentale, Pordenone, Italy
Alfonso Tortorella
; Department of Psychiatry, University of Perugia, Perugia, Italy
Abstract
The Covid-19 outbreak are generating relevant consequences under several aspects. Covid-19 pandemic together with air
pollution and a dysfunctional anthropization/urbanization might affect public and mental health with a synergistic effect. The current
paper explore hypothesis about existing links among Covid-19, air pollution and mental illness.
Keywords
COVID-19; air pollution; mental illness; migration; environment; urbanization
Hrčak ID:
274196
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Publication date:
16.9.2021.
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