TY - JOUR T1 - Psychological well-being, physical health and social prescribing in the context of social research JF - Thorax JO - Thorax SP - 536 LP - 536 DO - 10.1136/thoraxjnl-2020-214873 VL - 75 IS - 7 AU - Susan Nunn Y1 - 2020/07/01 UR - http://thorax.bmj.com/content/75/7/536.abstract N2 - Bu et al 1 report their findings from using data collected by an established longitudinal study of older people (the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing, ELSA), linked to administrative information, to analyse loneliness, social disengagement and isolation as risk factors for hospital admissions related to respiratory disease. Both survival and sensitivity analyses were used on a sample of c. 4500 respondents to conclude that living alone and social disengagement are risk factors for such admissions, but there was no significant statistical evidence to indicate that low social contact or loneliness are.Previous research, including the ELSA wave 5 report,2 has acknowledged ‘… strong cross-sectional associations between psychological well-being and health, particularly in relation to chronic … ER -