Guidance

Local action on health inequalities: reducing social isolation

This practice resource and summary explain how social isolation affects public health and outline ideas for reducing the problem.

• From: Public Health England
• Published: 15 September 2015

Documents

Reducing social isolation across the lifecourse

Ref: PHE publication gateway reference: 2015329

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Reducing social isolation across the lifecourse (briefing summary)

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These documents outline the problem of social isolation in relation to public health.

Presented in 3 sections, they include:

• evidence on the link between social isolation, poor health outcomes and health inequalities
• identification of who is at risk of social isolation and what impact this has on health inequalities
• possible interventions to reduce social isolation in identified populations

Published 15 September 2015