Does loneliness pose the same health risk as smoking? And from medicine to government, what kind of interventions are even possible?
In this episode of Ideas Matter, WashU’s Sandro Galea, dean of the Bursky School of Public Health, and Julianne Holt-Lunstad, professor and director of the Social Connection & Health Lab at Brigham Young University, explore what’s driving the loneliness problem in today’s world.