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...
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...
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...
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...
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 experience...
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...
Adding to concerns about this "epidemic" is the toll it may take on our health. "It turns out that loneliness is associated with a reduction in your lifespan that is as severe as the lifespan you see with smoking 15 cigarettes a day," he said. "We evolve to be social creatures and...
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. ...
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 ...
2.Amidst their staggering rates of anxiety, depression and deaths from suicide and drug overdoses, the U.S. surgeon general declared a youth mental health crisis in 2021 and identified an epidemic of loneliness in 2023, with young people among those at highest risk. ...