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Introduction to syndemics : a critical systems approach to public and community health / / Merrill Singer
Introduction to syndemics : a critical systems approach to public and community health / / Merrill Singer
Autore Singer Merrill
Edizione [First edition.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa San Francisco, California : , : Jossey-Bass, , c2009
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (xxi, 274 pages)
Soggetto topico Epidemics
Social medicine
Poor - Health and hygiene
Health Status Disparities
Ecology
Healthcare Disparities
Social Medicine
Systems Theory
ISBN 0470482982
9780470482988
Classificazione 498.6
2009 I-420
WA 300.1
362.1
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione und
Record Nr. UNINA-9910795974603321
Singer Merrill  
San Francisco, California : , : Jossey-Bass, , c2009
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Introduction to syndemics : a critical systems approach to public and community health / / Merrill Singer
Introduction to syndemics : a critical systems approach to public and community health / / Merrill Singer
Autore Singer Merrill
Edizione [1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa San Francisco, : Jossey-Bass, c2009
Descrizione fisica 1 online resource (xxi, 274 pages)
Disciplina 362.1
Soggetto topico Epidemics
Poor - Health and hygiene
Social medicine
ISBN 0470482982
9780470482988
Classificazione 498.6
2009 I-420
WA 300.1
362.1
Formato Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione eng
Nota di contenuto Introduction to Syndemics: A Critical Systems Approach to Public and Community Health -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- THE AUTHOR -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- PART 1: INTRODUCING KEY CONCEPTS IN SYNDEMICS -- CHAPTER 1: LEARNING FROM LICHEN -- ON NOT PLANTING CUT FLOWERS: THE WEIGHT OF HISTORY -- GERM THEORY AND THE BIOMEDICAL CONCEPTION OF DISEASE -- REVOLUTIONS IN BIOMEDICAL REALITIES -- PROBLEMS WITH THE POSTULATES -- CONFRONTING COMORBIDITY -- TOWARD SYNDEMIC RECONCEPTUALIZATION -- LOCAL KNOWLEDGE -- CONNECTIONS: HUMAN AND NONHUMAN -- SUMMARY -- KEY TERMS -- QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION -- PART 2: SYNDEMIC CASES -- CHAPTER 2: TRUCKING BETWEEN THE BAILIWICKS -- 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 -- CHAPTER 3: EXEMPLARS -- SYLLABLES IN THE BIOLOGICAL MESSAGE -- VARIETIES OF MICROLEVEL DISEASE INTERACTION -- SYNDEMIC DIVERSITY -- RENOCARDIAC SYNDEMIC -- SARS-CHRONIC DISEASE SYNDEMIC -- ASTHMA-INFLUENZA SYNDEMIC -- DIABULIMIA SYNDEMIC -- SUMMARY -- KEY TERMS -- QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION -- CHAPTER 4: HIV/AIDS AND OTHER INFECTIONS -- 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 DISCUSSION -- CHAPTER 5: BEYOND CONTAGION -- AN AGING EPIDEMIC -- INFECTIOUS AND CHRONIC DISEASE CONNECTIONS -- KIDNEY DISEASE AND HIV -- FOOD INSUFFICIENCY AND HIV -- CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES AND HIV/AIDS -- EMOTIONAL AND COGNITIVE HEALTH AND HIV/AIDS -- COUNTERSYNDEMICS -- SUMMARY.
KEY TERMS -- QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION -- PART 3: SOCIETY, HISTORY, AND THE ENVIRONMENT -- CHAPTER 6: INEQUITY AS A COFACTOR -- DISEASE IN THE TIME OF DISPARITY -- THE MAKING SOCIAL OF DISEASE -- BIOLOGIZING EXPERIENCE -- SUPERSYNDEMICS -- HEALTH AND HUMAN RIGHTS -- SUMMARY -- KEY TERMS -- QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION -- CHAPTER 7: SYNDEMICS AND THE WORLDS THEY MADE -- BEFORE NOW -- IRISH FAMINE SYNDEMIC OF 1741 -- GIBRALTAR CHOLERA SYNDEMIC OF 1865 -- MASSACHUSETTS SCARLET FEVER SYNDEMIC OF THE 1800S -- GLOBAL INFLUENZA SYNDEMIC OF 1918 -- SYNDEMICS AMONG NATIVE AMERICANS ON THE AMERICAN FRONTIER -- SYNDEMICS OF THE MORMON MIGRATION -- SYNDEMICS OF WAR -- SUMMARY -- KEY TERMS -- QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION -- CHAPTER 8: A WORLD OUT OF BALANCE -- EMERGENT SYNDEMICS OF A TROUBLED WORLD -- FROM EMERGENT INFECTION TO EMERGENT SYNDEMIC -- REEMERGENT DISEASES AND EMERGENT SYNDEMICS -- SUPERINFECTION: INTRAGENUS SYNDEMICS -- IATROGENIC SYNDEMICS -- UNINTENDED COUNTERSYNDEMICS -- ECOSYNDEMICS AND THE ANTHROPOCENE -- SUMMARY -- KEY TERMS -- QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION -- PART 4: APPLICATIONS OF THE SYNDEMIC PERSPECTIVE -- CHAPTER 9: PRACTICAL UTILITY -- WHY STUDY SYNDEMICS? -- PUBLIC HEALTH AND SYNDEMIC PREVENTION -- MEDICAL TREATMENT OF SYNDEMICS -- MODELING SYNDEMICS -- FUTURE SYNDEMICS -- SUMMARY -- KEY TERMS -- QUESTIONS FOR DISCUSSION -- GLOSSARY -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.
Record Nr. UNINA-9910808961003321
Singer Merrill  
San Francisco, : Jossey-Bass, c2009
Materiale a stampa
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
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