Introduction to Syndemics: A Critical Systems Approach to Public and Community Health

作者：Merrill C. Singer · 发表于：Medical Entomology and Zoology · 年份：2009 · 被引用次数：546 · 研究领域：HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses

Preface. The Author. Acknowledgments. PART ONE INTRODUCING KEY CONCEPTS IN SYNDEMICS. 1 LEARNING FROM LICHEN: RECONCEPTUALIZING HEALTH AND DISEASE. On Not Planting Cut Flowers: The Weight of History. Germ Theory and the Biomedical Conception of Disease. Revolutions in Biomedical Realities. Problems with Postulates. Confronting Comorbidity. Toward Syndemic Reconceptualization. Local Knowledge. Connections: Human and Nonhuman. Summary. Key Terms. Questions for Discussion. PART TWO SYNDEMIC CASES. 2 TRUCKING BETWEEN THE BAILIWICKS: MULTIDISCIPLINARITY, SAVA, AND SYNERGIES IN HEALTH. Why Multidisciplinarity. The Term Syndemic. The SAVA Syndemic. SAVA Among Victims of Domestic Violence. SAVA Among MSM. SAVA Among Street Drug Users. SAVA Among Commercial Sex Workers. SAVA and Public Health. Summary. Key Terms. Questions for Discussion. 3 EXEMPLARS: SYNDEMIC CASE STUDIES. Syllables in the Biological Message. Varieties of Microlevel Disease Interaction. Syndemic Diversity. Renocardiac Syndemic. SARS-Chronic Disease Syndemic. Asthma-Infl uenza Syndemic. Diabulimia Syndemic. Summary. Key Terms. Questions for Discussion. 4 HIV/AIDS AND OTHER INFECTIONS: IMMUNE IMPARITY AND SYNDEMOGENESIS. Assessing the HIV/AIDS Syndemics. Opportunistic Infections and HIV/AIDS. Sexually Transmitted Disease Syndemics. Hepatitis and HIV/AIDS Syndemic. Tuberculosis and HIV/AIDS Syndemic Malaria and HIV/AIDS Syndemic VL and HIV/AIDS Syndemic. Helminths and HIV/AIDS Syndemic. Summary. Key Terms. Questions for...