Solitudine: malattia emergente del XXI secolo

Journal title SALUTE E SOCIETÀ
Author/s Carmelo Guarino
Publishing Year 2019 Issue 2019/3
Language Italian Pages 15 P. 146-160 File size 177 KB
DOI 10.3280/SES2019-003013
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According to an increasing number of studies and evidences, it seems that loneliness, due to socio-demographic and cultural changes, globalization and ongoing digital revolution of the modern age, is turning into a pathological condition that reveals the characters of a real epi-demic disease, with its own sets of symptoms and risk factors. The present systematic review shows how loneliness, perceived as a phenomenon that goes across to generations and coun-tries, is able to determine the emergence of clinical signs of morbidity, comorbidity and to in-crease the risk of early mortality, especially in absence of adequate policies.

Keywords: Loneliness; Disease; Mortality; Modernity; Change; Socio-demographic Dynamics.

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Carmelo Guarino, Solitudine: malattia emergente del XXI secolo in "SALUTE E SOCIETÀ" 3/2019, pp 146-160, DOI: 10.3280/SES2019-003013