Hawkins, Rhiannon; (2025) Mental Health Vulnerability Index (MHVI): preparing communities, societies and authorities for the impacts of climate change on mental health. UCL Warning Research Centre: London, UK.

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Climate change poses a significant challenge to mental health and well-being both on local to global spatial scales and on immediate and long-term temporal scales, for instance, individuals who experience flooding are shown to have more persistent experiences of mental health conditions three years after the event than those who do not experience flooding (Mulchandani et al., 2020). Currently, Early Warning Systems (EWS) and Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR) strategies attempt to overcome challenges which are increasing because of the increased frequency and intensity of climatic hazards. Therefore, to ensure that EWS and DDR strategies continue to work in an era of growing climatic variability, this report undertakes an analysis of the current literature and policy of EWS and DRR strategies and proposes a novel solution (MHVI) to help a range of agencies identify communities most vulnerable to developing mental ill health during climatic hazards. This is to facilitate the implementation of solutions with are more anticipatory rather than responsive to help improve community resilience to the mental health implications of climate change.

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