Mental health consequences of urban air pollution: prospective population-based longitudinal survey

Purpose The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently ranked air pollution as the major environmental cause of premature death. However, the significant potential health and societal costs of poor mental health in relation to air quality are not represented in the WHO report due to limited evidence....

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Published in:Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 2021-09, Vol.56 (9), p.1587-1599
Main Authors: Bakolis, Ioannis, Hammoud, Ryan, Stewart, Robert, Beevers, Sean, Dajnak, David, MacCrimmon, Shirlee, Broadbent, Matthew, Pritchard, Megan, Shiode, Narushige, Fecht, Daniela, Gulliver, John, Hotopf, Matthew, Hatch, Stephani L., Mudway, Ian S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Air Pollutants - adverse effects
Air Pollutants - analysis
Air pollution
Air Pollution - adverse effects
Air Pollution - analysis
Air quality
Environmental Exposure - adverse effects
Epidemiology
Households
Humans
Longitudinal Studies
Medical care, Cost of
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Mental disorders
Mental Health
Mental illness
Nitrogen dioxide
Nitrogen oxides
Original Paper
Particulate emissions
Prospective Studies
Psychiatry
Signs and symptoms
Social aspects
Surveys
Urban health
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Summary:Purpose The World Health Organisation (WHO) recently ranked air pollution as the major environmental cause of premature death. However, the significant potential health and societal costs of poor mental health in relation to air quality are not represented in the WHO report due to limited evidence. We aimed to test the hypothesis that long-term exposure to air pollution is associated with poor mental health. Methods A prospective longitudinal population-based mental health survey was conducted of 1698 adults living in 1075 households in South East London, from 2008 to 2013. High-resolution quarterly average air pollution concentrations of nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ) and oxides (NO x ), ozone (O 3 ), particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter 
ISSN:0933-7954
1433-9285
DOI:10.1007/s00127-020-01966-x