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syndemic: a standalone construct

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syndemic1 CONSTRUCTSyndemic (Public)SINGER · PUBLIC HEALTH

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Public health

two or more diseases clustering in a population and interacting biologically and socially, intensified by adverse social conditions.

In public health, syndemic refers to two or more diseases clustering in a population and interacting biologically and socially, intensified by adverse social conditions. This meaning comes from Singer (2017) in The Lancet.[1]

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population4 fields · 4 citationsjingle · one word, four constructs

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  1. Singer, M., Bulled, N., Ostrach, B., & Mendenhall, E. (2017). Syndemics and the biosocial conception of health. The Lancet, 389(10072), 941-950. https://doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(17)30003-x

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