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November 2024   |   Volume 26 No. 1

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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.

More than a Feeling

A Slippery Slope to Depression

A Measure of the Problem

Neighbourhood Effects

Relief for the Lonesome