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Modeling TB-HIV syndemic and treatment [PDF]
Journal of Applied Mathematics, 2014 Tuberculosis (TB) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) can be considered a deadly human syndemic. In this article, we formulate a model for TB and HIV transmission dynamics.
Silva, Cristiana J. +1 more
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Çocuk Dergisi, 2021 The term syndemic was developed by medical anthropologists to “label the synergistic interaction of two or more coexistent diseases and resultant excess burden of disease.” COVID-19 has exposed and exacerbated societal inequalities among children through
Nick Spencer
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Guinea’s response to syndemic hotspots [PDF]
BMJ Global Health, 2021 ### Summary box ### Syndemic hotspots The Guinean health system has been severely overstretched this year. It has to deal with several concurrent (re-)emerging infectious diseases—Ebola, Lassa fever, measles, meningitis, yellow fever, vaccine-derived poliomyelitis1—as well as a second wave of the COVID-19 pandemic (figure 1).
Delphin Kolie +5 more
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Health disparities in chronic liver disease
Hepatology, EarlyView., 2022 Abstract The syndemic of hazardous alcohol consumption, opioid use, and obesity has led to important changes in liver disease epidemiology that have exacerbated health disparities. Health disparities occur when plausibly avoidable health differences are experienced by socially disadvantaged populations.
Ani Kardashian +3 more
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2021 A Perspective on 'A Machine-Generated View of the Role of Blood Glucose Levels in the Severity of COVID-19' by Logette E, Lorin C, Favreau C, Oshurko E, Coggan JS, Casalegno F, Sy MF, Monney C, Bertschy M, Delattre E, Fonta P-A, Krepl J, Schmidt S, Keller D, Kerrien S, Scantamburlo E, Kaufmann A-K and Markram H (2021). Front. Public Health. 2:27.
Emilie Courtin, Paolo Vineis
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Sheroes: Feasibility and Acceptability of a Community-Driven, Group-Level HIV Intervention Program for Transgender Women. [PDF]
, 2020 Transgender women experience disproportionate risk of HIV acquisition and transmission. We piloted 'Sheroes', a peer-led group-level intervention for transgender women of any HIV status emphasizing empowerment and gender affirmation to reduce HIV risk ...
Castro, Danielle +4 more
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SSM: Population Health, 2021 Background: Scotland has the shortest life expectancy in Western Europe, driven by high rates of cancer, suicides, alcohol-related causes and drug-related poisonings. These disparities cannot be explained solely by socioeconomic deprivation.
Jeremy Coid +6 more
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Syndemics and the PrEP Cascade: Results from a Sample of Young Latino Men Who Have Sex with Men. [PDF]
, 2019 Young Latino men who have sex with men (MSM) are a highly vulnerable population for HIV infection. Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) is a novel biomedical HIV prevention tool that may aid in reducing the disparity in HIV incidence among Latino MSM. However,
Blashill, Aaron J +8 more
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The Syndemic Approach in relation to Clinical Practice and Research in Psychiatry
Consortium Psychiatricum, 2020 The syndemic framework goes beyond the concept of comorbidity and considers how diseases interact within their wider environmental context, along with social and political factors, to mutually exacerbate negative outcomes.
Sarah J. Parry, Graham Thornicroft
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Complexity of childhood sexual abuse: predictors of current post-traumatic stress disorder, mood disorders, substance use, and sexual risk behavior among adult men who have sex with men [PDF]
, 2015 Men who have sex with men (MSM) are the group most at risk for HIV and represent the majority of new infections in the United States. Rates of childhood sexual abuse (CSA) among MSM have been estimated as high as 46 %.
Baker, Joshua S. +9 more
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