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Syndemics and the etiology of opioid misuse among women: A qualitative study
SSM: Qualitative Research in Health, 2022 The opioid epidemic remains a public health priority in the United States. There is evidence that women are experiencing disparities within the epidemic, including an earlier onset of prescription opioid misuse and a higher prevalence of child ...
Antoinette L. Spector +5 more
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Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 BackgroundSince the mass vaccination against SARS-CoV-2 was launched in Israel, the Arab ethnicity minority had lower vaccine uptake. The syndemics theory suggests a closely interrelated complex of health and social crises among vulnerable societies ...
Anat Amit Aharon
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Global Health Action, 2021 Background Syndemics are characterized by the clustering of two or more health conditions, their adverse interaction, and contextual factors that create the conditions for clustering and/or interaction that worsens health outcomes.
Irene Pirrone +3 more
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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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F1000Research, 2023 Background: Syndemics or synergies of cooccurring epidemics are widely studied across health and social sciences in recent years. Methods: We conducted a meta-knowledge analysis of articles published between 2001 to 2020 in this growing field of academic
Tasmiah Nuzhath +10 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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Syndemics at play: chronic kidney disease, diabetes and COVID-19 in Pakistan
Annals of Medicine, 2021 Although coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is a pandemic, it has several specificities influencing its outcomes due to the entwinement of several factors, which anthropologists have called "syndemics". Drawing upon Singer and Clair’s syndemics model, I
Inayat Ali
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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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The Coronavirus Crisis and Migration: The Pan-Syndemic and Its Impact on Migrants
Dve Domovini, 2021 he coronavirus crisis exposed and exacerbated inequalities that already existed. Simultaneously, it has transformed inequalities, changing old ones, generating new ones, intertwining the old and the new.
Fabio Perocco
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