Introduction to syndemics
Subtitle: a critical systems approach to public and community health
By: Merrill Singer.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2009
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780470472033
Subjects: Epidemics; Social medicine; Poor -- Health and hygiene; Health Status Disparities; Ecology; Healthcare Disparities; Social Medicine; Systems Theory
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Learning from lichen : reconceptualizing health and disease; title: Trucking between the bailiwicks : multidisciplinarity, sava, and synergies in health; title: Exemplars : syndemic case studies; title: HIV/AIDS and other infections : immune imparity and syndemogenesis; title: Beyond contagion : HIV/AIDS and noninfectious disease syndemogenesis; title: Inequity as a cofactor : the syndemic impact of social disparities; title: Syndemics and the worlds they made; title: A world out of balance : emergent and reemergent ecosyndemics; title: Practical utility : mobilizing the syndemic model in the promotion of health and treatment of disease.