Singer M, Bulled N, Ostrach B, Mendenhall E, Syndemics and the biosocial conception of health, 2017, The Lancet , Volume 389, No. 10072, p941–950.
This paper discusses the key concepts of the syndemic approach and it potential for novel public health and clinical research that is attentive to the multiple dynamics at play in health.
Mendenhall E, Kohrt BA, Norris SA, Ndetei D, Prabhakaran D, Non-communicable disease syndemics: poverty, depression, and diabetes among low-income populations, Lancet. 2017 Mar 4; 389(10072): 951–963.
Employing diabetes as an exemplar with its comorbidity of HIV in Kenya, tuberculosis in India, and depression in South Africa, this paper explains a model of syndemics that addresses transactional pathophysiology, socioeconomic conditions, health system...
Logie CH, Duncan AL, Poteat T, Wagner AC, Syndemic Factors Mediate the Relationship between Sexual Stigma and Depression among Sexual Minority Women and Gender Minorities, 2017, Women’s Health Issues, Volume 27, Issue 5, Pages 592-599.
This cross sectional study examine the syndemic condition composed of low social support, low self-rated health, low self-esteem, and economic insecurity mediated the relationship between sexual stigma and depressive symptoms among sexual minority women and gender...Social Inequalities, Health and Well-being: Using the Lens of Dignity and Embodiment by Mita Deshpande
“Social Inequalities, Health & Well-being among Dalit Women Agricultural Labourers – Using the Lens of Dignity and Embodiment”. How do structures of inequality – caste, class and gender- get reflected in the health and well-being of a marginalized community? What are the meanings of dignity as articulated by Dalit women in the context of their lives & health? This webinar will present a study that engaged with these questions.
Speaker: Ms. Mita Deshpande, PhD scholar, Centre of Social Medicine & Community Health, JNU, New Delhi, India. She has worked with the Jagrutha Mahila Sanghatan, Raichur, which is a collective of Dalit women agricultural labourers. She has completed her MPhil from JNU.