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Syndemics and the biosocial conception of health
MAY 15, 2022
The 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 e ects of disease interaction.
How COVID, Inequality and Politics Make a Vicious Syndemic
MAY. 2, 2022
The larger lesson of COVID is that social and biological risk are deeply entangled. Viruses may cause disease in individuals, but pandemics play out in populations. This disease, like previous pandemics, reflects political, economic and social conditions. One way to understand these dynamics is through the concept of syndemics.
Covid-19 is really a syndemic — and that shows us how to fight it
APR. 20, 2022
The deadly impact of the pandemic “is not caused by the virus acting alone but interacting with chronic diseases like diabetes, obesity, heart disease and high blood pressure — all against a background of inequality and poverty. We can’t fully control the infection without addressing those factors.”
How to capture the individual and societal impacts of syndemics: the lived experience of COVID-19
APR. 3, 2022
There is also evidence that COVID-19 has a greater impact on social groups that experience greater social and economic inequality.8 Confirming the underlying hypothesis of syndemic theory, COVID-19 infection and mortality patterns have been shown to differ across countries and regions, and early evidence suggests that they depend at least to some extent on the social, political and economic context.
COVID-19 as a Syndemic
MAR. 23, 2022
Researchers and commentators have called for COVID-19 to be considered a syndemic (3, 4). The notion seems to fit well with the emerging evidence on inequalities in vulnerability, susceptibility, exposure and transmission of the infection.
Syndemics and the biosocial conception of health
MAR. 20, 2022
The 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.
Syndemics: a new path for global health research
FEB. 2, 2022
How we think about disease pathologies affects how we design policies and deliver care to those most affected by social and economic inequities.
Prevalence and bio-psychosocial factors associated with depressive symptoms
among lupus patients
JAN. 15, 2022
Depressive symptoms are globally recognized as a significant mental health problem in patients with chronic disease, particularly those with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE). The purpose of this study was to estimate the prevalence and examine bio-psychosocial factors of depressive symptoms among patients with SLE.
Syndemics and Global Health
DEC. 14, 2021
Syndemic theory considers how social inequalities drive disease interaction. A new study uses a mixed-methods approach to examine how stress interacts with multiple diseases to affect quality of life in Soweto, South Africa.