Water and mental health

A Wutich, A Brewis, A Tsai - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
There is a well‐established connection among water quality, sanitation, and physical health.
The potentially important relationship between water and mental health is considerably less …

Water insecurity and gender‐based violence: A global review of the evidence

PS Tallman, S Collins… - Wiley …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We reviewed the existing literature documenting the association between water insecurity
and gender‐based violence to (1) describe the characteristics and contexts of available …

Geographies of insecure water access and the housing–water nexus in US cities

K Meehan, JR Jurjevich… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
Safe, reliable, and equitable water access is critical to human health and livelihoods. In the
United States, an estimated 471,000 households or 1.1 million individuals lack a piped …

The Household Water InSecurity Experiences (HWISE) Scale: development and validation of a household water insecurity measure for low-income and middle …

SL Young, GO Boateng, Z Jamaluddine, JD Miller… - BMJ global …, 2019 - gh.bmj.com
Objective Progress towards equitable and sufficient water has primarily been measured by
population-level data on water availability. However, higher-resolution measures of water …

Stigma and the perpetuation of obesity

AA Brewis - Social science & medicine, 2014 - Elsevier
Even as obesity rates reach new highs, the social stigmatization of obesity seems to be
strengthening and globalizing. This review identifies at least four mechanisms by which a …

Progress in household water insecurity metrics: a cross‐disciplinary approach

WE Jepson, A Wutich, SM Colllins… - Wiley …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the central importance of water for human wellbeing and development, researchers
and practitioners have few tools to quantitatively measure, assess, and compare the scope …

Psychological distress in North America during COVID-19: The role of pandemic-related stressors

J Zheng, T Morstead, N Sin, P Klaiber… - Social science & …, 2021 - Elsevier
Rationale The COVID-19 pandemic has wreaked havoc on lives around the globe. In
addition to the primary threat of infection, widespread secondary stressors associated with …

The toll of household water insecurity on health and human biology: Current understandings and future directions

AY Rosinger, SL Young - Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Water is imperative for nutrition and health, economic productivity, and political stability; it
also holds cultural and symbolic meanings and functions. Household water insecurity is an …

“When you have no water, it means you have no peace”: a mixed-methods, whole-population study of water insecurity and depression in rural Uganda

RC Mushavi, BFO Burns, B Kakuhikire… - Social science & …, 2020 - Elsevier
Background Lack of access to clean water has well known implications for communicable
disease risks, but the broader construct of water insecurity is little studied, and its mental …

[HTML][HTML] Water security and nutrition: current knowledge and research opportunities

JD Miller, CL Workman, SV Panchang, G Sneegas… - Advances in …, 2021 - Elsevier
Water is an essential nutrient that has primarily been considered in terms of its physiological
necessity. But reliable access to water in sufficient quantities and quality is also critical for …