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Isolation in America: Does Living Alone Mean Being Alone?

February 6, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post

HCB: You conducted interviews with hundreds of people across the country who live alone. Tell us about the trends you identified in the book. Klinenberg: When I looked more closely at the issue I learned that living alone had become incredibly commo ...

Research Plan Developed to Study the Relationship Between Social Connectedness and Health

December 1, 2003 | Program Result

Experts from the social, behavioral, physiological and medical sciences developed a plan to study how the extent to which people are socially connected (that is, have relationships with others) affects their physical health.

Spokane, Wash.

August 1, 2005 | Program Result

Washington State University School of Public Health planned and implemented an intervention to link families in faith-based congregations in Spokane, Wash., to isolated single-parent families in their communities.

YOUR Top Five Blog Posts of 2012

December 31, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post

A Doctor Delivers Multiple Acts of Human Kindness to Homeless Women. “She was just one more homeless woman who had been raped, a ‘nobody,’ just more paperwork,” blogged RWJF Community Health Leader Roseanne H. Means, MD, explaining why a woman in he ...

Poverty and Health

June 14, 2012 | Journal Article

The study's results shows social discrimination can be a chronic stressor, with a detrimental impact on physiological systems over time.

Californian Works to Keep Older Adults Safe Whether at Home or in Nursing Homes

October 17, 2012 | News Release

RWJF honors Kathi Toepel with a 2012 Community Health Leaders Award.

Class-Based Discrimination Harms Child Health

June 13, 2012 | Story

New evidence suggests discrimination is an important social determinant of health among White Americans.

Communalism Predicts Prenatal Affect, Stress, and Physiology Better Than Ethnicity and Socioeconomic Status

October 1, 2010 | Journal Article

Being culturally interconnected with others can be beneficial to a pregnant woman’s health and well-being.

Social Environment Affects Likelihood that Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual Youth Will Attempt Suicide

April 18, 2011 | Story

LGB youth are 20 percent more likely to attempt suicide in a negative social environment than in a positive one, regardless of their individual risk factors, concludes study by RWJF Health & Society Scholar.

The Loneliness of Fighting a Rare Cancer

January 1, 2010 | Journal Article

After her mother is diagnosed with gallbladder cancer, a journalist researches how to help find effective therapies for patients who get rare diseases.

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