Loneliness is not only a subjective sensation, but according to the World Health Organization (WHO) is an important worldwide health problem. Show record data: every sixth person worldwide is affected, more than 871,000 dead are related to chronic loneliness.
Loneliness increases, among other things, the risk of brain beats and heart attacks, diabetes, depression, anxiety and suicide.
One of the three older people and one of the four adolescents are socially isolated. The causes include diseases, poor education and low incomes, lack of offers for social contacts and sole traders and digital technologies.
But individuals and families are not only affected individually. In society, billions of health have risen in health care and failures, for example at employment.
Non -verbal communication
For thousands of years, people have not only communicated through words, but also facial expressions, body language, voice and silence. This is lost if you constantly communicate via mobile phones and social media.
Sweden as a pioneer
The WHO leads Sweden as a good example: the country has a national strategy against loneliness: in many places an attempt is made to consciously make social contacts possible, for example in shops or restaurants. All children and adolescents would soon receive money cards with which they could book group activities for leisure time. Mobile phones should be prohibited, contacts would grow and cyberbullying would be reduced. Parents can serve as a model if they do not constantly deal with their mobile phones.
Source: Krone
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