{"id":69354,"date":"2025-06-30T11:52:36","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T11:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=69354"},"modified":"2025-06-30T11:52:36","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T11:52:36","slug":"loneliness-claims-870000-lives-yearly-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/30\/loneliness-claims-870000-lives-yearly-who\/","title":{"rendered":"Loneliness Claims 870,000 Lives Yearly -WHO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The World Health Organization (WHO), has identified loneliness as a global health crisis, attributing over 870,000 deaths annually to its impact on mental and physical health.<\/p>\n<p>According to a new WHO report, one in six people globally experience loneliness, contributing to heart disease, stroke, diabetes, depression, anxiety, and suicide.<\/p>\n<p>The problem also affects academic performance, job retention, and adds billions in healthcare and economic costs.<\/p>\n<p>WHO Commissioner Vivek Murthy described loneliness as \u201ca painful, subjective feeling\u201d and warned that the overuse of digital technology is replacing meaningful face-to-face interactions.<\/p>\n<p>Highlighting Sweden\u2019s proactive approach, Social Minister Jakob Forssmed revealed initiatives such as banning phones in public schools and funding group activities for children to boost real-world connections.<\/p>\n<p>While digital tools have benefits, the WHO emphasized the urgent need for spaces that promote direct, undistracted human interaction to combat this growing epidemic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo The World Health Organization (WHO), has identified loneliness as a global health crisis, attributing over 870,000 deaths annually to its impact on mental and physical health. According to a new WHO report, one in six people globally experience loneliness, contributing to heart disease, stroke, diabetes, depression, anxiety, and suicide. The problem also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":69355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69356,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69354\/revisions\/69356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}