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An update to "Care for the seafarers: A review of mental health in Austronesia", with specific recommendation to address climate change Dear Editor, Mindful that continent-based regional reviews of mental health do not fully describe ethnocultural groups that are widely dispersed across multiple continents, we previously reviewed mental health in the world region populated by Austronesian language speakers and mostly inclusive of islands and coastal areas in the Pacific and Indian Oceans and Southeast Asia (Guerrero, Fung, Suaalii-Sauni, & Wiguna, [3]). Climate-related health adversities are not just limited to islands, as heavily populated mainland Southeast Asia is also vulnerable to extreme weather events, undernutrition, infectious diseases, and premature death (Bowen & Ebi, [1]). [Extracted from the article]