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Reframing Food is Medicine as syndemic care: a multidimensional approach to food insecurity [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health
Food insecurity and chronic disease are interlinked through systemic disparities in the United States. Building on anthropological and public health scholarship, we argue that syndemic theory offers a valuable framework for analyzing these entangled ...
Caroline Elizabeth Owens, David Himmelgreen   +1 more
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Urban climate–NCD syndemics in LMICs: a transdisciplinary framework for Health action [PDF]

Global Health Action
Background Climate change poses a major threat to global health. Its synergistic interaction with non-communicable diseases (NCDs), responsible for 74% of global deaths, demands urgent, integrated action.
Meelan Thondoo, Feyisayo Wayas, Lidia Morais, Elis Borde, Charles Obonyo, Mikateko Mafuyeka, Damilola Odekunle, Victor Onifade, Tiago Canelas, Motlatso Godongwana, Lambed Tatah, Clarisse Mapa-Tassou, Edwin Ngwa, Awah Tchouaffi, Felix Assah, Opeyemi Babajide, Grace Githiri, Georgiana Gordon-Strachan, Taibat Lawanson, Tolu Oni   +19 more
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Racial/ethnic disparities in the dose-response relationship between syndemic risk factors and increased gun carrying odds among male high school students in the United States [PDF]

Preventive Medicine Reports
Objective: Substance use, mental health, and violence are co-occurring risks associated with gun carrying among adolescents. Using a syndemic framework, we examined the co-occurrence and cumulative effect of these risk factors on gun carrying in male ...
Marie-Claude Couture, Erin Grinshteyn, David Hemenway   +2 more
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Reproductive health syndemics impact retention in care among women living with HIV in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases, 2023
Syndemic psychosocial and reproductive factors affecting women's retention in HIV care remain understudied. We analyzed correlates of non-retention in a cohort of women with HIV in Brazil from 2000‒2015.
Christine M. Zachek, Lara E. Coelho, Jesse L. Clark, Rosa M.S.M. Domingues, Paula M. Luz, Ruth K. Friedman, Ângela C. Vasconcelos de Andrade, Valdilea G. Veloso, Jordan E. Lake, Beatriz Grinsztejn, Raquel B. De Boni   +10 more
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A syndemic born of war: Combining intersectionality and structural violence to explore the biosocial interactions of neglected tropical diseases, disability and mental distress in Liberia

PLOS Global Public Health, 2022
The intersections between NTDs, disability, and mental ill-health are increasingly recognised globally. Chronic morbidity resultant from many NTDs, particularly those affecting the skin—including lymphatic filariasis (LF), leprosy, Buruli ulcer (BU) and ...
Laura Dean, Sally Theobald, Gartee Nallo, Anthony Bettee, Karsor Kollie, Rachel Tolhurst   +5 more
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Assuring Healthy Populations During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Recognizing Women's Contributions in Addressing Syndemic Interactions

Frontiers in Public Health, 2022
A syndemic framework examines disease interactions and the contributions of structural, social, economic, and environmental factors that synergistically interact to contribute to adverse health outcomes.
Rosemary M. Caron, Semra A. Aytur
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Informing theoretical development of salutogenic, asset-based health improvement to reduce syndemics among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men: empirical evidence from secondary analysis of multi-national, online cross-sectional surveys [PDF]

, 2020
Globally, gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men (GBMSM) experience an increased burden of poor sexual, mental and physical health. Syndemics theory provides a framework to understand comorbidities and health among marginalised populations ...
Ferlatte, Olivier, Flowers, Paul, Frankis, Jamie, Gilbert, Mark, McAloney-Kocaman, Kareena, McDaid, Lisa M.   +5 more
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High prevalence of syndemic health problems in patients seeking post-exposure prophylaxis for sexual exposures to HIV. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
INTRODUCTION:The standard clinical approach to non-occupational HIV post-exposure prophylaxis (nPEP) focuses on biomedical aspects of the intervention, but may overlook co-occurring or 'syndemic' psychosocial problems that reinforce future vulnerability ...
Steven A Morrison, Deborah Yoong, Trevor A Hart, Paul MacPherson, Isaac Bogoch, Vishalini Sivarajah, Kevin Gough, Mark Naccarato, Darrell H S Tan   +8 more
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Using Syndemics Theory to Investigate HIV Sexual Risk Affecting Latino Men Who Have Sex with Men in Philadelphia, PA: Findings from the National HIV Behavioral Surveillance

Ehquidad, 2020
Latino men who have sex with men (MSM) continue to be disproportionately impacted by HIV/AIDS. Latino MSM experienced a 13% increase in HIV diagnoses in the U.S., more than any other racial/ethnic group of MSM.
Omar Martinez, Kathleen A. Brady, Ethan Levine, Kathleen R. Page, Maria Cecilia Zea, Thespina J. Yamanis, Suzanne Grieb, Jennifer Shinefeld, Kasim Ortiz, Wendy W. Davis, Brian Mattera, Ana Martinez-Donate, Silvia Chavez-Baray, Eva M. Moya   +13 more
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“Syndemic moral distress”: sexual health provider practices in the context of co-occurring, socially produced sexual and mental health epidemics

BMC Health Services Research, 2022
Background ‘Syndemic’ refers to socially produced, intertwined, and co-occurring epidemics. Syndemic theory is increasingly used to understand the population-level relationships between sexual health (including HIV) and mental health (including ...
Travis Salway, Stéphanie Black, Angel Kennedy, Sarah Watt, Olivier Ferlatte, Mark Gaspar, Rod Knight, Mark Gilbert   +7 more
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