This article describes major findings in the study of social relationships and health, and how that knowledge might be translated into policy that promotes population health. Adults who are more socially connected are healthier and live longer than their more isolated peers. Over the past few decades, social scientists have gone beyond evidence of extreme social deprivation to demonstrate a clear link between social relationships and health in the general population. Social isolation of otherwise healthy, well-functioning individuals eventually results in psychological and physical disintegration, and even death. Captors use social isolation to torture prisoners of war-to drastic effect.
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