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Introduction to syndemics : a critical systems approach to public and community health

Title
  1. Introduction to syndemics : a critical systems approach to public and community health / Merrill Singer.
Published by
  1. San Francisco, CA : Jossey-Bass, c2009.
Author
  1. Singer, Merrill

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Description
  1. xxi, 274 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  1. Social medicine
  2. Poor > Health and hygiene
  3. Healthcare Disparities
  4. Social Medicine
  5. Systems Theory
  6. Ecology
  7. Health Status Disparities
  8. Epidemics
Contents
  1. Pt. 1. Introducing key concepts in syndemics -- 1. Learning from lichen: reconceptualizing health and disease -- Pt. 2. Syndemic cases -- 2. Trucking between the bailiwicks: multidisciplinarity, sava, and synergies in health -- 3. Exemplars: syndemic case studies -- 4. HIV/AIDS and other infections: immune imparity and syndemogenesis -- 5. Beyond contagion: HIV/AIDS and noninfectious disease syndemogenesis -- Pt. 3. Society, history, and the environment -- 6. Inequity as a cofactor: the syndemic impact of social disparities -- 7. Syndemics and the worlds they made -- 8. A world out of balance: emergent and reemergent ecosyndemics -- Pt. 4. Applications of the syndemic perspective -- 9. Practical utility: mobilizing the syndemic model in the promotion of health and treatment disease.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.