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]
SSM: Population Health, 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 ...
Lisa M. McDaid +5 more
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Using a Syndemics Perspective to (Re)Conceptualize Vulnerability during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Scoping Review [PDF]
Tropical Medicine and Infectious DiseaseSyndemics theory has been applied to study interactions between biomedical and social factors leading to the clustering of diseases. Because syndemics theory focuses on interactions that enhance risk, the concept of vulnerability is central to this ...
Yisel Hernandez Barrios +6 more
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An Update on Syndemics: Editorial Comments [PDF]
Tropical Medicine and Infectious DiseaseThe theory of syndemics hypothesizes that observed clusters of diseases in specific temporal and geographical contexts are the result of harmful socio-environmental conditions resulting in mutually enhancing deleterious consequences [...]
Nicola Bulled, Merrill Singer
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Occupational Syndemics in Farmworkers in the Cape Winelands, South Africa [PDF]
Tropical Medicine and Infectious DiseaseOccupational exposures in the agricultural industry globally have been associated with heightened risk for several diseases. Reports written in South Africa in the last decade have raised awareness of the harsh occupational conditions and human rights ...
Nicola Bulled
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Convergence between Cardiometabolic and Infectious Diseases in Adults from a Syndemic Perspective: A Scoping Review [PDF]
Tropical Medicine and Infectious DiseaseObjective. Synthesize the approaches used to study the convergence between cardiometabolic and infectious diseases in adults from a syndemic perspective based on the scientific evidence available to date worldwide. Methods.
Silvia Quiroz-Mena +2 more
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Can social adversity and mental, physical and oral multimorbidity form a syndemic? A concept and protocol paper [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychiatryBackgroundClustering mental, physical and oral conditions reduce drastically the life expectancy. These conditions are precipitated and perpetuated by adverse social, economic, environmental, political and healthcare contextual factors, and sustained ...
Easter Joury +28 more
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Is Pollution the Primary Driver of Infectious Syndemics? [PDF]
PathogensSyndemics, the adverse interaction of two or more coterminous diseases or other negative health conditions, have probably existed since human settlement, plant and animal domestication, urbanization, and the growth of social inequality beginning about 10–
Merrill Singer
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The whole is greater than the sum of its parts: Integrating syndemics and intersectionality in tackling the HIV and mental health epidemics among Filipino gay and bisexual men. [PDF]
PLOS Mental HealthInsufficient attention has been given to the social aspects of HIV and mental health in the Philippines despite their profound impact on Filipinos, particularly gay and bisexual men and other men who have sex with men.
Aron Harold G Pamoso +3 more
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Recommendations for empirical syndemics analyses: A stepwise methodological guide [PDF]
HeliyonSyndemic theory posits that co-occurring diseases interact in a manner that increases disease transmission, progression, and negative health outcomes. And that adverse socioeconomic and environmental conditions promote this disease or health condition ...
Nicola Bulled
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Conservation biology meets medical science [PDF]
Nature Conservation, 2022 In my letter I refer to publications around syndemics, and link them up to other health concepts, calling for a stronger link between medical, social and environmental sciences to advance the global management of pandemic threats.
Dirk S. Schmeller
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