Social Isolation, Loneliness, and Living Alone: Identifying the Risks for Public Health.

• Autores: Eric M. Klinenberg
• Localización: American journal of public health, ISSN 0090-0036, Vol. 106, Nº. 5, 2016, págs. 786-787
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The authors reflect on the article "Social Isolation: A Predictor of Mortality Comparable to Traditional Clinical Risk Factors" by M. Pantell, D. Rehkopf, D. Jutte, S.L. Syme, J. Balmes, and N. Adler which appears in a 2013 issue of the journal, and it mentions the efforts to identify the risks for public health. Research on one-person households in places such as Sweden, Finland, and the U.S. is provided, along with the causal links between living alone, social isolation, and loneliness.