November 2024 | Volume 26 No. 1
Cover Story
Solitary Lives
The global epidemic of loneliness
Late last year, the World Health Organization launched a new commission tasked with assessing loneliness “as a pressing public health threat”. The announcement came on a groundswell of research showing loneliness can worsen mental and physical health. HKU researchers have been studying the scale and nature of the problem, and possible solutions.