Social isolation and loneliness have serious impacts

30 June 2025
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Text: 'Social isolation and loneliness have serious impacts. They harm physical and mental health, reduce life expectancy with loneliness causing 870 000 deaths a year, and cost society billions in terms of health care, education and employment
WHO Team
Demographic Change and Healthy Ageing (DHA), Maternal, Newborn, Child & Adolescent Health & Ageing (MCA), Mental Health, Brain Health and Substance Use (MSD), Social Determinants of Health (SDH), WHO Commission on Social Connection