Using population-based longitudinal data from Australia, Li and Bentley evaluated how climate disasters affect mental health, showing that individuals with pre-existing conditions experience dispropor...

Significant overlap between social disadvantage and flood risk highlights the need for urgent investment in risk reduction, preparedness, and recovery, say University of Melbourne experts

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Crisis management is a field that evaluates and solves crisis and disaster responses. Whilst the effectiveness of the ideal-type parameters of crisis management and administration has been well exami...

Significant overlap between social disadvantage and flood risk highlights the need for urgent investment in risk reduction, preparedness, and recovery, say University of Melbourne experts

Walking through the Archibald Prize Exhibit several years ago, I was struck by a large painting of Sam Harris by Zoe Young that took up an entire wall unto itself.

Background: As climate-related disasters become more frequent and intense, understanding how people’s patterns of mobility and immobility are affected by multiple disasters is crucial to informing dis...

Background: As climate-related disasters become more frequent and intense, understanding how people’s patterns of mobility and immobility are affected by multiple disasters is crucial to informing dis...

Anthropogenic climate change is causing rapid shifts in temperature and weather patterns, both in location and intensity, making living conditions increasingly hazardous. This complicates housing's fr...

2025 was the 3rd warmest year on Earth since direct observations began, and recent warming appears to be moving faster than expected.

Anthropogenic climate change is causing rapid shifts in temperature and weather patterns, both in location and intensity, making living conditions increasingly hazardous. This complicates housing's fr...

Background: Social vulnerability refers to the ways in which social conditions and relations constrain capacities of individuals or groups to anticipate, cope with, or recover from harm. A limited abi...

Historically, climate disasters were thought of as rare, singular events. But thanks to climate change, disasters are escalating.

Additional disaster exposures were associated with greater declines in mental health and shifts in some risk factors. Multiple disaster exposures must be urgently considered in public health, welfare,...

Mould growth is indicative of unhealthy indoor environments, posing health risks. Measuring the prevalence and scope of the exposure largely relies on…

Housing is an often overlooked yet fundamental social determinant of health. Like other social epidemiology exposures, housing faces a tension between…

In this article, I revisit the debate surrounding the deinstitutionalization of marriage. I identify the divergent methodologies used to evaluate deinstitutionalization and argue that institutional p...

The need to assess and measure how social vulnerability influences the health impacts of climate change has resulted in a rapidly growing body of research literature. To date, there has been no overarching, systematic examination of where this evidence is concentrated and what inferences can be made. This scoping review provides an overview of studies published between 2012 and 2022 on social vulnerability to the negative health effects of climate change. Of the 2115 studies identified from four bibliographic databases (Scopus, Web of Science, PubMed, and CAB Direct), 230 that considered indicators of social vulnerability to climate change impacts on health outcomes were selected for review.

The burgeoning field is still grappling with fundamental problems, from getting access to data to defining 'misinformation' in the first place

In Australia, the energy burden increases with extreme heat, and single-parent or lone-person households, residents living in poor-quality houses, and colder regions are at greater risk, according to ...