It’s been one year since the U.S. surgeon general issued a national warning about an epidemic of loneliness. Other countries recognized the problem earlier: the United Kingdom appointed a minister for ...

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When Carrie Diaz Eaton trained as a mathematician, they didn’t expect their career to involve social-justice research. Growing up in Providence, Rhode Island, Diaz Eaton first saw social justice in ...

Current global estimates suggest that 1 in 4 older adults experience social isolation, and 5 to 15 percent of adolescents experience loneliness. Weak social connections cause a higher risk of early ...

We need a new way to think about mental health − one that recognizes every person’s role in tackling the crisis that surrounds us. Amid this crisis, government at all levels is desperately trying to ...

The environments in which young people can explore, fail safely, and develop social mastery has been radically narrowed.

A couple of days ago, I published an academic research article titled “Health and Disease Concepts Cannot Be Grounded in Social Justice Alone” in the Croatian Journal of Philosophy. The title is ...

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Much has been said about rises in mental health problems reported by younger people over the past 20 years. It is estimated that the prevalence of anxiety for 18-to-25-year-olds was about 8% in 2008, ...

There are different perspectives on how many areas of self-care contribute to a happy, healthy life. But in some way, shape, ...

All of us have heard guidelines about how to be physically healthy—eat well, exercise, wash your hands, get plenty of rest. But how many of us have thought seriously about our social lives—the ...

Your physical and mental well-being are crucial—but the picture isn’t complete if you aren’t flexing your connection muscles, too. Here’s how to build—and keep—your social health. Next year will mark ...