First steps in identifying and addressing loneliness in the context of COVID-19

TY - JOUR

T1 - First steps in identifying and addressing loneliness in the context of COVID-19

AU - Cunningham, K. B.

AU - Kroll, T.

AU - Wells, M.

N1 - Funding Information: The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship and/or publication of this article: The final author is supported by the NIHR Imperial Biomedical Research Centre (BRC). Copyright: © Royal Society for Public Health 2020.

PY - 2021/7

Y1 - 2021/7

N2 - Already a significant public health problem prior to the COVID-19 pandemic due to its associations with low wellbeing, poor mental and physical health and premature mortality, loneliness has likely escalated greatly across the world following the introduction of physical distancing measures to control the spread of coronavirus. In this article, Kathryn Cunningham and co-authors outline how addressing loneliness and its related adverse health outcomes is therefore critical in the longer-term response to the pandemic.

AB - Already a significant public health problem prior to the COVID-19 pandemic due to its associations with low wellbeing, poor mental and physical health and premature mortality, loneliness has likely escalated greatly across the world following the introduction of physical distancing measures to control the spread of coronavirus. In this article, Kathryn Cunningham and co-authors outline how addressing loneliness and its related adverse health outcomes is therefore critical in the longer-term response to the pandemic.

UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85101836946

U2 - 10.1177/1757913920975793

DO - 10.1177/1757913920975793

M3 - Article

C2 - 33629619

AN - SCOPUS:85101836946

SN - 1757-9139

VL - 141

SP - 200

EP - 201

JO - Perspectives in Public Health

JF - Perspectives in Public Health

IS - 4

ER -