State of the Nation Report: Social Connections in Australia 2023

Released as part of Loneliness Awareness Week 2023, the aim of this deep-dive into loneliness and social isolation is to understand the distribution of social health across the Australian population and examine the relationships between loneliness and social isolation and community knowledge, stigma, physical and mental health, health service utilisation, quality of life, and work productivity. The the study is longitudinal - meaning snapshots will be taken across two further time points - so this report only reflects on the first time point (June 2023). Measuring loneliness over multiple time points will allow us to better understand how loneliness influences health and wellbeing over time.