EditorialSyndemics: health in context
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Health inequalities and social determinants of health: The role of syndemics in rheumatic diseases
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2022, FuturesCitation Excerpt :This suggests that rather than a pandemic, COVID-19 is a syndemic (Horton, 2020). A syndemic is a synergistic epidemic where various variables (e.g., health, socioeconomic, and psychosocial) amass depending on the situation and context in which people live and work (The Lancet, 2017). It involves “a set of mutually reinforcing health and psychosocial problems that generate increased health risk and burden on vulnerable populations” (Batchelder et al., 2015, p. 229).
Rheumatic heart disease in Indigenous young peoples
2021, The Lancet Child and Adolescent HealthCitation Excerpt :As such, the true effect of RHD on Indigenous peoples can be substantially underappreciated.2 The global distribution of RHD in low-income and Indigenous communities reflects a syndemic interaction between the biological aetiology of the disease and political, colonial, environmental, social, and economic contexts.3 Biologically, the causal pathway begins with a pharyngeal infection with Streptococcus pyogenes (group A streptococcus), which can cause an abnormal immune response in susceptible young people.4
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