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Mathew Toll
@mathew-toll.bsky.social
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Mapping social vulnerability indicators to understand the health impacts of climate change: a scoping review
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.
www.thelancet.com
Scoping review on social vulnerability and the health effects of climate change published in The Lancet Planetary Health. Co-authored with Ang Li and Rebecca Bentley. Check it out: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Happy to have a new paper out in @thelancetph.bsky.social that offers a framework for exploring how climate change interacts with housing, and the consequences of this for climate-related health risks:
Housing at the intersection of health and climate change
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...
www.thelancet.com
September 17, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Happy to have a new paper out in @thelancetph.bsky.social that offers a framework for exploring how climate change interacts with housing, and the consequences of this for climate-related health risks:
Has anyone managed to find where to stream/download/see the film Ravens (2024) about Masahisa Fukase?
August 5, 2025 at 3:15 AM
Has anyone managed to find where to stream/download/see the film Ravens (2024) about Masahisa Fukase?
New preprint on social vulnerability to the health effects of climate change across Australia
Social vulnerability to health impacts of climate change in Australia: understanding dimensions, drivers, and health inequality
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...
www.medrxiv.org
July 13, 2025 at 7:15 AM
New preprint on social vulnerability to the health effects of climate change across Australia
It still grates me that studies written about the U.S. often don't make the setting/context super clear. Reviewers and editors don't let anyone else get away with that
June 19, 2025 at 4:59 AM
It still grates me that studies written about the U.S. often don't make the setting/context super clear. Reviewers and editors don't let anyone else get away with that
"As it becomes more common to face climate disasters again and again, what does this mean for the mental health and wellbeing of people affected?"
People’s mental health goes downhill after repeated climate disasters – it’s an issue of social equity
Historically, climate disasters were thought of as rare, singular events. But thanks to climate change, disasters are escalating.
theconversation.com
April 30, 2025 at 5:45 AM
"As it becomes more common to face climate disasters again and again, what does this mean for the mental health and wellbeing of people affected?"
New study looking at the long term and compounding effect of exposure to multiple climate-related disasters by Ang Li and Claire Leppold published in The Lancet Public Health:
Long-term mental health trajectories across multiple exposures to climate disasters in Australia: a population-based cohort study
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,...
www.thelancet.com
April 30, 2025 at 1:13 AM
New study looking at the long term and compounding effect of exposure to multiple climate-related disasters by Ang Li and Claire Leppold published in The Lancet Public Health:
Co-authored a validation study on self-reported mould. 100 dust samples from Australian homes and an onsite survey were used to quantify the sensitivity and specificity around self-report measures and this is useful for anyone who wants to do large epidemiological or prevalence studies around mould
The validity and accuracy of self-reported measures in assessing indoor mould exposure
Mould growth is indicative of unhealthy indoor environments, posing health risks. Measuring the prevalence and scope of the exposure largely relies on…
www.sciencedirect.com
February 3, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Co-authored a validation study on self-reported mould. 100 dust samples from Australian homes and an onsite survey were used to quantify the sensitivity and specificity around self-report measures and this is useful for anyone who wants to do large epidemiological or prevalence studies around mould
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Our global study on the state of trust in scientists is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🥳
With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5
With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5
January 20, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Our global study on the state of trust in scientists is now out in Nature Human Behaviour! 🥳
With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5
With a team of 241 researchers, we surveyed 71,922 people in 68 countries, providing the largest dataset on trust in scientists post-pandemic 👇🧵https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-024-02090-5
New paper on the key challenges in undertaking causally focused healthy housing research, including confounding, the positivity assumption, consistency, exposure definition, and measurement. Surveys a decade of research to illustrate strategies for overcoming these challenges
The challenges of quantifying the effects of housing on health using observational data
Housing is an often overlooked yet fundamental social determinant of health. Like other social epidemiology exposures, housing faces a tension between…
www.sciencedirect.com
January 10, 2025 at 9:44 AM
New paper on the key challenges in undertaking causally focused healthy housing research, including confounding, the positivity assumption, consistency, exposure definition, and measurement. Surveys a decade of research to illustrate strategies for overcoming these challenges
Scenes in Wutaishan
📷 Fujifilm X100v
Shanxi, China.
2024.
📷 Fujifilm X100v
Shanxi, China.
2024.
January 10, 2025 at 8:19 AM
Scenes in Wutaishan
📷 Fujifilm X100v
Shanxi, China.
2024.
📷 Fujifilm X100v
Shanxi, China.
2024.
New paper by Rhys Herden looking at issues around deinstitutionalization of marriage, power, and personal life:
Journal of Family Theory & Review | NCFR Family Science Journal | Wiley Online Library
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...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 10, 2024 at 1:32 AM
New paper by Rhys Herden looking at issues around deinstitutionalization of marriage, power, and personal life:
Scoping review on social vulnerability and the health effects of climate change published in The Lancet Planetary Health. Co-authored with Ang Li and Rebecca Bentley. Check it out: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Mapping social vulnerability indicators to understand the health impacts of climate change: a scoping review
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.
www.thelancet.com
November 25, 2024 at 8:49 AM
Scoping review on social vulnerability and the health effects of climate change published in The Lancet Planetary Health. Co-authored with Ang Li and Rebecca Bentley. Check it out: www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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So what have I learnt about #misinformation research? I tried to condense it into a list of the 5 biggest challenges the field faces.
Second story in my package of stories about misinformation research is up here (and thread to come):
www.science.org/content/arti...
Second story in my package of stories about misinformation research is up here (and thread to come):
www.science.org/content/arti...
The five biggest challenges facing misinformation researchers
The burgeoning field is still grappling with fundamental problems, from getting access to data to defining 'misinformation' in the first place
www.science.org
November 1, 2024 at 8:36 AM
So what have I learnt about #misinformation research? I tried to condense it into a list of the 5 biggest challenges the field faces.
Second story in my package of stories about misinformation research is up here (and thread to come):
www.science.org/content/arti...
Second story in my package of stories about misinformation research is up here (and thread to come):
www.science.org/content/arti...
Paper 'The risk of energy hardship increases with extreme heat and cold in Australia' out in Comms, Earth & Environment looking at climate change and energy hardship in Australia:
The risk of energy hardship increases with extreme heat and cold in Australia - Communications Earth & Environment
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 ...
doi.org
November 24, 2024 at 2:37 AM
Paper 'The risk of energy hardship increases with extreme heat and cold in Australia' out in Comms, Earth & Environment looking at climate change and energy hardship in Australia: