Table 2. Sub-categories of health impacts in publications that reported on mental or physical health impacts or mortality, 1951 to 2023.

Category of health impact	Sub-category (1)	Sub-category (2)	Publications
Mental health and well-being	Symptoms of mental disorders/illness—21 publications1924 67,69 71 73 75	Post-traumatic stress disorder	13 publications1922 24 68 69 71 73 77,80 87 97
		Depression	Seven publications19 24 68 75 77 80 86
		Anxiety	Five publications19 24 68 77 80
		Childhood anxiety symptomology	Four publications103109,112
		Suicidal ideation	Three publications19 24 77
		Mental health disorders	One publication76
	Other symptoms of mental distress—18 publications1922 24 67 69 71 72 77,80 86	Psychological distress/distress/subjective distress (also called peritraumatic stress and dissociation)	13 publications1922 24 67 69 71 72 77,80 87 97
		Nervous tension	One publication86
		Depressed mood	One publication86
		Irritability	One publication86
		Child attention problems	One publication103
		Maternal mood (anxiety, depression and stress)	One publication113
		Infant social-emotional and behavioural problems	One publication88
		Psychological symptoms*	One publication90
	General assessment of mental health—seven publications68 71 72 81 83 96 103	Coping style	One publication72
		Satisfaction with life	One publication68
		Perceived mental health	One publication68
		Infant temperament	One publication83
		General mental health and well-being	One publication81
		Child’s theory of mind	One publication96
		Sleep quality	Two publications71 103
	Positive traits—two publications68 93	Post-traumatic growth	One publication93
		Stoicism	One publication68
Physical health	Infectious disease—13 publications4249 53 54 56,58 61 63 64 66 76 86	Leptospirosis†	Five publications54 57 61 63 64
		Melioidosis	Five publications49 53 56 58 66
		Infection	One publication76
		Mycobacterial infection	One publication42
		Infectious disease in general	One publication86
	Children’s birth and developmental outcomes—11 publications74 82 84 89 91 92 94 95 103 114 115	Child language and/or cognitive and/or motor development and /or behavioural	Nine publications82 84 89 91 92 95 103 114 115
		Children’s birth outcomes	One publication74
		Autism spectrum disorder traits	One publication94
	Vector-borne disease—seven publications44,4651 60 62 98	Murray Valley encephalitis	Five publications44,4651 60
		Kunjin virus	Two publications46 51
		Ross River virus	One publication62
		General vector-borne	One publication98
	General self-assessed health—four publications68 71 86 90	Subjective health assessment and overall health	Four publications68 71 86 90
	Physical symptoms/non-specified illness/disease—two publications76 86	Gastrointestinal	One publication86
		Headache	One publication86
		Weight loss	One publication86
		Pain	One publication86
		Illness	One publication76
		Disease	One publication76
	Metabolic/ biological measures of health—two publications85 116	Alterations in placental glucocorticoid system	One publication85
		Urinary metabolomes	One publication116
	Respiratory and cardiac conditions—two publications47 71	Respiratory health	One publication71
		Takotsubo cardiomyopathy	One publication47
	Injury—one publication76	Injury	One publication76
Mortality	Mortality—eight publications43 48 50 52 55 59 65 70	Flood fatalities – general	Four publications48 50 52 55
		Vehicle-related flood fatalities	One publication43
		Suicide	One publication70
		Drowning	One publication59
		All cause, cardiovascular and respiratory mortality	One publication65

^*‘irritability, nervous tension, depression of mood, worry and sleeplessness’ which was given a descriptive label by the authors—‘the psychiatric cluster’

^†For the purpose of this review, we have included leptospirosis under ‘Infectious disease’ rather than with the more ‘classic’ ‘Vector-borne disease’.