REVIEW article
Front. Clim.
Sec. Climate and Health
Volume 7 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fclim.2025.1665070
This article is part of the Research TopicClimate Health: An Emerging Transdisciplinary FieldView all 3 articles
Climate Change, Marriage and Health
Provisionally accepted
Jie-Yu Chuang1*
Joel Capellan1,2- 1Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health, New York, United States
- 2John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, United States
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Few studies to date have examined the triadic relationship between climate change, marriage dynamics, and health. This review will investigate the speculated causal pathway originating from climate change, influencing marriage rates, and ultimately resulting in adverse health outcomes. We first summarize climate-health links, marriage-health links, then the sparse literature on the climate-marriage link; before offering a conceptual framework for future work. Due to the nascent nature of this research area, there is a lack of a unified perspective on these matters. More research is warranted to explore the public health implications of climate change and increasing singlehood. Furthermore, policy adjustments can be tailored to the research findings. For example, distinct public health policies could be applied to men and women if future studies show a significant sex difference in the proposed causal pathway.
Keywords: Climate Change, climate, Marriage, Divorce, heat, temperature, Health, Incel
Received: 13 Jul 2025; Accepted: 03 Oct 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Chuang and Capellan. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Jie-Yu Chuang, xiliwu3@gmail.com
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