U.S. Surgeon GeneralVivek Murthyhas been sounding the alarm on the loneliness epidemic for more than a year. In his 2023 report"Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation," Murthy wrote that loneliness is associated with a greater risk of cardiovascular disease, dementia, stroke, depressio...
Widespread loneliness in the U.S. poses health risks as deadly as smoking a dozen cigarettes daily, costing the health industry billions of dollars annually, the U.S. surgeon general said Tuesday in declaring the latest public health epidemic. About half of U.S. adults say they've experienced...
孤独是一种与社会脱节的主观体验,现在被广泛认为其为健康的不良风险因素。 2023年,美国公共卫生局(US Surgeon General)还曾发布了一份长达85页的研究报告,特别指出“孤独(loneliness)”或“社会孤立(social isolation)”是种公共卫生流行疾病。 而近日广州医科大学学者进行的研究还发现,孤独与30种疾病风险升高有关,其...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Widespread loneliness in the U.S. poses health risks as deadly as smoking up to 15 cigarettes daily, costing the health industry billions of dollars annually, the U.S. surgeon general said Tuesday in declaring the latest public health epidemic. About half of U.S. adults...
LONELINESSMEDICAL personnelEPIDEMICSInsurance companies, in turn, should provide enough reimbursement for the time clinicians spend addressing their patients' concerns about social support as part of value-based payment models. Medical News in Brief A new advisory from US Surgeon General Vivek...
“Millions of people in America are struggling in the shadows, and that’s not right. That’s why I issued this advisory to pull back the curtain on a struggle that too many people are experiencing.” The declaration is intended to raise awareness around loneliness but won’t unlock federal...
These are the U.S. surgeon general’s three easy ways to combat loneliness each day. 1. Reach out to someone Every day, Murthy reaches out to someone in his circle to catch up, ask how they are doing, or remind them he’s thinking of them., such as feeling grateful for a friend ...
And Murthy is leaving the country with the final virtue on which communities must be built: love. “Creating community requires an explicit commitment to be a part of each other’s lives and to make those lives better,” he wrote. “As I finish my tenure as Surgeon General, this ...
Is There Really a “Loneliness Epidemic”? (Ep. 407 Rebroadcast) | Stephen J. Dubner | September 2, 2021 | Freakonomics I agree with the surgeon general in issuing the advisory about misinformation and disinformation — certainly that plays a big role here. CNN’s Leana Wen: ‘Public health...
What are the lifestyle issues that kill Americans? You might guess smoking, obesity, or the raging opioid epidemic, and you’d be right. But you’d also be missing a quieter but also seriously deadly health menace, according to former surgeon general Vivek H. Murthy —loneliness. ...