Eco-Anxiety & Youth: Promoting Resilience and Positive Mental Health by Dermot Hurley
The growing impact of the ongoing climate crisis is impossible to ignore, not least on the emotional well-being of children and youth who are experiencing profound eco-emotions and climate crisis anxiety. Dealing with climate anxiety and developing emotional resilience requires initiatives at multiple levels including targeted education & health care, dissemination of correct scientific information, environmental activism, and links to environmental protection agencies. Promoting resilience in youth is a multi-dimensional process involving the interaction of complex connections between individual, relational, cultural, and socio-political systems.
Eco Eye, Dr Lara Dungan – Healthy Environment for Health and Wellbeing
Medical advancements over the course of our lifetime have been astronomical. Many of the diseases that killed our parent’s generation only 30 years ago, are no longer the same threat to us today. But with new threats and diseases constantly developing will we continue to live longer and healthier lives? Unfortunately now a whole host of new issues are affecting our health and well-being. Many of these issues are related to the environment we live in and how we live of lives. In this episode Dr Lara Dungan looks at some of the issues and concerns that affect our health and lifespan. How and where we live, travel and work… the air we breathe, the water we drink, even the packaging that the water comes in, all combine to have a huge impact on our health. Dr Lara Dungan will explore how all these factors affect our health, and discover what we can do to protect ourselves and our children from everyday environmental pollution.
National Youth Health Programme (NYHP) – Young Men’s Mental Health
The NYCI Youth Health Programme has created this video to highlight issues experienced by young men around mental health. In 2018 the National Youth Health Programme (NYHP) conducted a rapid needs assessment among the youth work sector in Ireland to investigate ‘Young Men’s Health’. From the assessment according to youth workers anger (88%), anxiety (86%) and stress (86%) are biggest factors young men are dealing with in today’s society. In response, for Men’s Health Week 2019, we have created a series of short videos to support youth workers to start the conversation with young men in dealing with these issues.
Western Michigan University Ireland Study Abroad Eco-health Summer 2021
Overview of Western Michigan University study abroad program to Ireland/Northern Ireland Summer 2021: Exploring Eco-Health in Ireland and Northern Ireland. Research has indicated a strong relationship between human health and exposure to the natural world. Eco-Health is an emerging field of study researching how the earth’s ecosystems affect human health, including changes in biological, physical, social and psychological functioning. This program presents an opportunity to explore the various ways in which nature applies to human health, addressing concepts of healthy places, health-promoting environments and programs across urban and rural spaces.
EPA-Funded Eco-Health project
In this short video, Prof. Mark Scott gives a synopsis of the EPA-Funded Eco-Health project. Project Abstract: This project advances the perspective that accessible and well-designed green spaces are essential infrastructure that is fundamental to the health and well-being of thriving and inclusive communities. There is a scientific consensus that green space provides multiple benefits for enhancing health and well-being, and these benefits provided by green space are increasingly recognised in policy at international, national and local levels.
EcoHealthNet
EcoHealthNet is an undergraduate and graduate-level global research coordination network, funded by the National Science Foundation, to bring together world-class research scientists from medical, ecology, veterinary, epidemiology, virology, anthropology, climate science, data science, and economics fields that will advance One Health research and education. Advancements will take place through three activities:
1) creation of a peer network of undergraduate and graduate STEM students from various disciplines via one-week workshops that teach applied skills and provide in-person contact time with scientists actively conducting research related to anthropogenic environmental change, economics, and emerging diseases, which will also be delivered live as an interactive webinar to university students globally;
