by admin | Nov 24, 2017 | Articles, Further Readings
This paper critically review the literature on syndemics and introduce key concepts for measuring effects of disease interaction on population health
by admin | Nov 24, 2017 | Articles
This paper examines the application of syndemic theory to co morbidities and multi morbidities in low-income and middle-income countries. The study takes diabetes as an exemplar and discuss its comorbidity with HIV in Kenya, tuberculosis in India, and depression in...
by admin | Nov 24, 2017 | Articles
This systematic review of empirical research on syndemics, points out that though all studies demonstrated statistically significant associations between co-occurring psychosocial problems and one or more (typically HIV-related) outcomes, fewer than one in three...
by admin | Nov 24, 2017 | Articles
This study presents the utility of a syndemics theory approach to understanding HIV risk practices in high-risk MSM populations and reports that demographic factors, childhood maltreatment experiences, substance use/abuse, psychological/ psychosocial functioning, and...
by admin | Nov 24, 2017 | Articles
Using Syndemic theory, this paper explains how the social, psychological, and economic factors experienced by African American and Puerto Rican heterosexual young adults in Hartford, USA underlie the set of sexual ideas, attitudes and behaviors, and sexual behaviour...