Rejection and social isolation create emotional stress, exacerbating the physical effects of the disease.

Evidence from human and animal studies shows that isolation prompts sensitivity to social threats and motivates the renewal of social connections.

Extreme poverty is almost synonymous with extreme isolation, especially rural isolation.

Effects True social isolation over years and decades tends to be a chronic condition affecting all aspects of a person's existence.

However, our understanding of how and why social isolation is risky for health or conversely how and why social ties and relationships are protective of health, still remains quite limited.

Breaking Burma s Isolation

End Taiwan s Isolation

Islands of Isolation

Japan s Kamikaze Isolation

Oil and Isolation

The long term unemployed also experienced a variety of physical and psychological problems, among them demoralization, apathy, and a sense of social isolation.

The programmes for carers are attended by large numbers of women and are helping to enhance women's opportunities and to reduce social isolation.

Not So Splendid Isolation

Iraq and Japanese Isolation

Russia s Road to Isolation

Everything said fear and isolation.

Isolation of HIV Aids programmes

What can even more isolation achieve?

Most things don t exist in isolation.

The isolation of certain production zones.

Social isolation can be an issue for anyone despite their age, each age group may show more symptoms than the other as children are different from adults.

Germany has historically never benefitted from isolation.

Those goals cannot be realized in isolation.

Tehran is afraid of regional and international isolation.

People do not form their preferences in isolation.

Psychopathology has generally been traced, at least in captivity, to adverse rearing conditions such as early separation of infants from mothers early sensory deprivation and extended periods of social isolation.

They also face abuse, compounded by racism, cultural and language barriers, lack of documentation and information on social and legal rights, fear of deportation and a general sense of isolation.

Similarly, threatening North Korea with isolation, the hardy perennial of diplomatic pressuring, does not work, because isolation is exactly what the North Koreans want.

Finally, younger Iranians are tired of Iran s international isolation.

It should offer constructive engagement and end its isolation.

Lack of respect for communities living in voluntary isolation

It is increasingly recognized that tourism and environmental impacts should be addressed not in isolation, but within the wider context of sustainable development, paying equal attention to environmental, social and economic sustainability.

If things go wrong, China could move to embrace isolation.

Isolation has brought confusion about Japan's place in the world.

Obviously, those three central issues cannot be seen in isolation.

We do not live together, but in isolation from each other.

To work for the international isolation of Iran, Hezbollah, and Hamas

His work has explored religion, politics, isolation, sexuality, and personal relationships.

Judicial supervision of the use of isolation in pre trial detention

Those aspects were interlinked and could not be considered in isolation.

However, the Turkish Cypriots, though having fulfilled their responsibilities on the way to a solution by voting overwhelmingly in favour of the plan, continue to face difficulties arising from ongoing political, economic, cultural and social isolation.

And that furthers the isolation that people like John found themselves in.

The Western world will rush to demand more sanctions and more isolation.

Previously, EU policy was to isolate Belarus, which itself was seeking isolation.

But the stranglehold of North Korea s dictatorship is based on total isolation.