Surgeon General Warns of a New Public Health Crisis
May 7, 2023
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as posted by the channelThe Surgeon General is warning that Americans are lonely and that is leading to dramatic health consequences across the country. Ana Kasparian and John Iadarola discuss on The Young Turks. Watch LIVE weekdays 68 pm ET.
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"The US Surgeon General is sounding an alarm: Americans are more lonely and socially disconnected than ever, and it’s a serious threat to their physical and mental health that demands urgent policy action.
A new report from the Surgeon General says that social isolation’s effects on mortality are equivalent to smoking up to 15 cigarettes every day. Social isolation (an objective measure of lacking connection to families, friends, and community) and loneliness (a subjective measure of feeling disconnected) contribute to a person having a higher risk of heart disease, stroke, anxiety, depression, and dementia, and make people more susceptible to infectious diseases.
Those individual health effects ripple out into the broader community. Communities with more social cohesion have less disease and lower all-cause mortality than those with less so-called social capital. They are better prepared for natural disasters and experience less violence.
Reports from the surgeon general are reserved for urgent public health issues that require immediate action — and the nation’s top public health official argues that loneliness and isolation qualify.
“Given the profound consequences of loneliness and isolation, we have an opportunity, and an obligation, to make the same investments in addressing social connection that we have made in addressing tobacco use, obesity, and the addiction crisis,” Surgeon General Vivek Murthy wrote in the opening of the report.
The advisory breaks down the measures of social isolation and loneliness in the US, how they can affect people’s health, and introduces recommendations about how to being to alleviate this epidemic of loneliness. Here are the report’s main takeaways."
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