Mental Health Disparities From Climate Change: The Role of Housing Insecurity and LGBTQ+ Identity, California, 2023.
Objectives. To examine the relationship between housing insecurity and lesbian, gay, bisexual, pansexual, transgender, gender-expansive, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ+) identity with mental health burdens from climate events among California adults. Methods. We used cross-sectional data from 2023 Ca...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Public Health Vol. 116; no. 6; pp. 779 - 790 |
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