{"id":515062,"date":"2024-07-17T14:51:26","date_gmt":"2024-07-17T17:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/?p=515062"},"modified":"2024-07-17T15:01:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-17T18:01:50","slug":"campaign-against-loneliness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/campaign-against-loneliness\/","title":{"rendered":"Campaign against loneliness"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_515067\" style=\"max-width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright vertical\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-515067 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-suecia-solidao-2024-02-800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"518\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-suecia-solidao-2024-02-800.jpg 800w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-suecia-solidao-2024-02-800-250x162.jpg 250w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-suecia-solidao-2024-02-800-700x453.jpg 700w, https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/RPF-notas-suecia-solidao-2024-02-800-120x78.jpg 120w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span class=\"media-credits-inline\">Torbj\u00f6rn Tapani\u2009\/\u2009Wikimedia Commons <\/span>Lule\u00e5 only gets three hours of sunlight a day in the winter<span class=\"media-credits\">Torbj\u00f6rn Tapani\u2009\/\u2009Wikimedia Commons <\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<p>The city of Lule\u00e5 in northern Sweden recently launched the S\u00e4g hej! campaign (\u201cSay hi!\u201d) with ads on buses and talks in schools. The objective is to promote social interaction and reduce loneliness among the city\u2019s residents, especially in winter, when there are only three hours of sunlight per day and people feel even more isolated. In November, the World Health Organization (WHO) followed suit, announcing a Commission on Social Connection to address loneliness as a public health issue, with members from eight countries. According to the WHO, one in four elderly people suffers from social isolation. An analysis of the mortality data of 458,146 adults from the UK Biobank showed that people who receive frequent visits are 39% less likely to die from cardiovascular diseases than people who spend more time alone. A team from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, followed the study participants for an average of 12.6 years, evaluating their social connection by reported feelings of loneliness, frequency of visits from friends, and weekly group activities (<em>BMC Medicine<\/em>, November 10; <em>WHO Newsletter<\/em>, November 15, 2023).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Swedish city launches campaign to combat loneliness among residents","protected":false},"author":475,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1651],"tags":[261],"coauthors":[785],"class_list":["post-515062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-notes","tag-sociology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/475"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515071,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515062\/revisions\/515071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515062"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistapesquisa.fapesp.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=515062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}