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SYNDEMICS AND HUMAN HEALTH: IMPLICATIONS FOR PREVENTION AND INTERVENTION
Author(s) -
Singer Merrill,
Bulled Nicola,
Ostrach Bayla
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
annals of anthropological practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.22
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 2153-9588
pISSN - 2153-957X
DOI - 10.1111/napa.12000
Subject(s) - perspective (graphical) , disease , medical anthropology , intervention (counseling) , global health , conceptual framework , human health , neglected tropical diseases , sociology , medicine , environmental health , public health , social science , computer science , pathology , psychiatry , artificial intelligence
Use of the syndemics concept has diffused from medical anthropology to an array of health‐related disciplines. This development reflects a growing awareness that diseases and disease sufferers do not exist in a vacuum and that many of the most damaging human epidemics are the possible or probable consequence, not of a single disease acting alone but of several diseases acting in tandem. Syndemics offer a useful conceptual framework for the study of global health inequality. As work guided by a syndemics perspective is conducted on a range of diseases and in diverse regions of the world, the practical health implications of this approach are beginning to unfold.