Social relationships are adaptive and crucial for survival. This review presents existing
evidence indicating that our social connections to others have powerful influences on health …

How might contact with nature promote human health? Myriad studies have linked the two;
at this time the task of identifying the mechanisms underlying this link is paramount. This …

Social isolation and loneliness are serious yet underappreciated public health risks that
affect a significant portion of the older adult population. Approximately one-quarter of …

Our social relationships are widely considered crucial to emotional well-being; however, the
possibility that social connection may be a biological need, vital to physical wellbeing and …

Abstract For 40 years, the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male passively
monitored hundreds of adult black men with syphilis despite the availability of effective …

This meta-analysis reviewed 126 published empirical articles over the past 50 years
describing associations between marital relationship quality and physical health in more …

Married individuals are healthier and live longer than those who are never married,
divorced, or widowed. But not all marriages are equal: unhappy marriages provide fewer …

Social relationships—both quantity and quality—affect mental health, health behavior,
physical health, and mortality risk. Sociologists have played a central role in establishing the …

Significant disparities in CKD rates and outcomes exist between black and white Americans.
Health disparities are defined as health differences that adversely affect disadvantaged …

Social proximity and interaction attenuate cardiovascular arousal, facilitate the development
of nonanxious temperament, inhibit the release of stress hormones, reduce threat‐related …