Climate Change And Mental Health in India: A Multifaceted Issue

Climate change poses a severe negative impact on everyone's mental health. The rapidly changing climate surpasses the competency of Indians and their health-bolstering organizations to adjust. A critical analysis of the review of the literature published between 2000 and 2021 scrutinized the nexus between climate change and mental health risks, their influence, and susceptibility. Through this exegesis, the author makes a humble attempt to present a new appraisal of verification and spotlight elements that determine the competency to adjust to the mental health repercussions of climate change. The present evaluation unleashed eleven determinants that impact the capacity to adjust: social capital, a feeling of togetherness, government support, ingress to resources, community readiness, collective actions of more than one specialized agency, susceptibility, and adjustability evaluations, transmission outrun, mental health awareness, and culturally apposite resources. Attentiveness to these constituents by Indian policymakers can boost dynamic and efficacious governance of mental health effects of climate change.