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View article: An Update on Syndemics: Editorial Comments
An Update on Syndemics: Editorial Comments Open
The theory of syndemics hypothesizes that observed clusters of diseases in specific temporal and geographical contexts are the result of harmful socio-environmental conditions resulting in mutually enhancing deleterious consequences [...]
View article: Exploring Climate Health Risks and Adaptations among Vulnerable Populations in Israel’s Negev Desert
Exploring Climate Health Risks and Adaptations among Vulnerable Populations in Israel’s Negev Desert Open
Background Climate change represents the paramount challenge to global health, disproportionately impacting particular vulnerable individuals and communities. By identifying and elucidating disparities in health-related climate risks among…
View article: The role of infectious disease in the loss of biodiversity
The role of infectious disease in the loss of biodiversity Open
Discussion of the relationship of infectious disease and biodiversity loss most commonly is framed in terms of the impact of diminishing biodiversity on zoonotic diseases among humans. Less examined is the role of infectious disease as a d…
View article: The occupational syndemics of miners in South Africa
The occupational syndemics of miners in South Africa Open
Occupational exposures in the large industrial mining sector contributed significantly to South Africa’s high excess death rate due to COVID-19. Historically poor work-protection oversight has perpetuated centuries of risky labor and livin…
View article: Is Pollution the Primary Driver of Infectious Syndemics?
Is Pollution the Primary Driver of Infectious Syndemics? Open
Syndemics, the adverse interaction of two or more coterminous diseases or other negative health conditions, have probably existed since human settlement, plant and animal domestication, urbanization, and the growth of social inequality beg…
View article: Conceptualizing COVID-19 syndemics: A scoping review
Conceptualizing COVID-19 syndemics: A scoping review Open
Background COVID-19’s heavy toll on human health, and its concentration within specific at-risk groups including the socially vulnerable and individuals with comorbidities, has made it the focus of much syndemic discourse. Syndemic theory …
View article: Planetary Health: Capitalism, Ecology and Eco-Socialism
Planetary Health: Capitalism, Ecology and Eco-Socialism Open
Adopting a critical anthropology of health perspective, informed by political ecology, we examine planetary health in the era of late capitalism or neoliberalism. The shift to a planetary health thinking was driven by the growing awareness…
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pluralism, 353 postcolonial medicine, 378 viral hemorrhagic fevers, 155 see also individual African countries… African American populations Black feminism in the United States, 218 Black Panthers, 399 cancer, 268 colonialism and the prism …
View article: Brain Syndemics: Cognitive Deficit, Pathways of Interaction, and the Biology of Inequality
Brain Syndemics: Cognitive Deficit, Pathways of Interaction, and the Biology of Inequality Open
Children born into and raised in disadvantaged families tend to experience poorer health and more developmental delays, lower achievement, and a greater number of behavioural and emotional problems than children from wealthier homes. There…
View article: The Syndemics and Structural Violence of the COVID Pandemic: Anthropological Insights on a Crisis
The Syndemics and Structural Violence of the COVID Pandemic: Anthropological Insights on a Crisis Open
This paper examines the COVID-19 pandemic in light of two key concepts in medical anthropology: syndemics and structural violence. Following a discussion of the nature of these two concepts, the paper addresses the direct and associated li…
View article: Consensus Statement for Pharmacological Management of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): A Pragmatic Approach
Consensus Statement for Pharmacological Management of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19): A Pragmatic Approach Open
Introduction: In the absence of high-quality evidence for Coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19), supportive care is advocated during this pandemic. We aim to develop a consensus statement from global experts for pharmacological management, b…
View article: Deadly Companions: COVID-19 and Diabetes in Mexico
Deadly Companions: COVID-19 and Diabetes in Mexico Open
In this commentary, I assess the adverse syndemic interactions between COVID-19 and diabetes mellitus. This syndemic is of major concern for a country like Mexico which has seen a steady rise in the percentage of its population suffering t…
View article: Predictors of Early Diabetic Retinopathy Regression with Ranibizumab in the RIDE and RISE Clinical Trials
Predictors of Early Diabetic Retinopathy Regression with Ranibizumab in the RIDE and RISE Clinical Trials Open
Michael Singer,1 Mimi Liu,2 Patricio G Schlottmann,3 Arshad M Khanani,4 Miranda Hemphill,5 Lauren Hill,5 Lisa Tuomi,5 Zdenka Haskova5 1Medical Center Ophthalmology Associates, San Antonio, TX, USA; 2Colorado Retina Associates, Denver, CO, …
View article: Precarity and Resilience: The Wellbeing of U.S. Latinos in a Time of Mounting Climate Change
Precarity and Resilience: The Wellbeing of U.S. Latinos in a Time of Mounting Climate Change Open
This environmental epidemiology article examines the understudied issue of Latino risk in the context of climate change. The largest ethnic minority group in the U.S., Latino socioeconomic characteristics put them disproportionately in har…
View article: Implications of Changing Attitudes towards Game Meat Consumption at the Time of Ebola in Limbe, Cameroon
Implications of Changing Attitudes towards Game Meat Consumption at the Time of Ebola in Limbe, Cameroon Open
The central focus of his work is the social origins and maintenance of health inequality. His current research focuses on community health impacts of climate
View article: Rebranding Our Field? Toward an Articulation of Health Anthropology
Rebranding Our Field? Toward an Articulation of Health Anthropology Open
In this article, we consider whether the term "medical anthropology" is serving us as well as it could be and whether the term "health anthropology" could be more appropriate. We argue that medical anthropology is used metonymically; that …