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Loneliness and Social Isolation

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Although loneliness and social isolation are commonly misconstrued as conditions existing on an individual scale, these are global public health issues which are linked to various physical and mental conditions including high blood pressure, heart disease, obesity, depression and a weakened immune system. These social conditions are mildly correlated and can occur at the same time but they are not mutually exclusive as a socially isolated person is not always lonely and conversely a person experiencing loneliness is not necessarily socially isolated. There is an urgent need to unravel the drivers of these social conditions, to develop interventions to tackle them and to understand which sub-populations of society are at a greater risk of persistent and high levels of loneliness.

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