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2017
Central to this volume, and critical to its unique creative significance and contribution, is the conceptual unification of syndemics and stigma. Syndemics theory is increasingly recognized in social science and medicine as a crucial framework for examining and addressing pathways of interaction between biological and social aspects of chronic and ...
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Central to this volume, and critical to its unique creative significance and contribution, is the conceptual unification of syndemics and stigma. Syndemics theory is increasingly recognized in social science and medicine as a crucial framework for examining and addressing pathways of interaction between biological and social aspects of chronic and ...
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Medical Anthropology, 2021
In this article, we address the nature of syndemics and whether, as some have asserted, these epidemiological phenomena are global configurations. Our argument that syndemics are not global rests on recognition that they are composed of social/environment contexts, disease clusters, demographics, and biologies that vary across locations.
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In this article, we address the nature of syndemics and whether, as some have asserted, these epidemiological phenomena are global configurations. Our argument that syndemics are not global rests on recognition that they are composed of social/environment contexts, disease clusters, demographics, and biologies that vary across locations.
Merrill Singer +2 more
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Fiscal Evolution and the Syndemic
2023Since its inception the COVID-19 crisis revealed that EU countries ’ immediate responses did not follow a clear path. Th ere is however growing evidence that tax measures naturally converged and this chapter hypothesises that this was a downstream eff ect of a common political framework of ‘ COVID-19 exceptionalism ’ based on biopolitics, a convergence
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2019
This chapter begins with Esther's story, a woman residing in Nairobi who confronts convergent social and health conditions from food insecurity to diabetes, HIV, and financial stress. The story demonstrates how a global story of diabetes overlooks the unique social, political, and cultural factors that produce diabetes from place to place.
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This chapter begins with Esther's story, a woman residing in Nairobi who confronts convergent social and health conditions from food insecurity to diabetes, HIV, and financial stress. The story demonstrates how a global story of diabetes overlooks the unique social, political, and cultural factors that produce diabetes from place to place.
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Syndemics and the biosocial conception of health
The Lancet, 2017The syndemics model of health focuses on the biosocial complex, which consists of interacting, co-present, or sequential diseases and the social and environmental factors that promote and enhance the negative effects of disease interaction. This emergent approach to health conception and clinical practice reconfigures conventional historical ...
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Tuberculosis - Depression syndemic: A public health challenge
Indian Journal of Tuberculosis, 2019Depression is common in Tuberculosis (TB) and associated with adverse outcomes through pathogenic mechanisms and impaired self-care behaviours including reduced treatment adherence. Undiagnosed depression can threaten the robustness of DOTS model despite large public health investment.
Mina, Chandra +3 more
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Syndemics or Synergistic Epidemics
2019AbstractThe word syndemics is used to express the aggregation of two or more disease clusters or epidemics in a population within social and environmental context and explain the unexpected increases in burden of diseases. Our knowledge about social, cultural and economic determinants of health and diseases is not new and has an old history.
HAYRAN, Osman, ATAÇ, Ömer
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Obesity: a syndemics perspective
Clinical Obesity, 2016B, Spoer, R, Fullilove
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