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Syndemic and public health

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Last updated: 01 Jan 2025

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Abstract

A syndemic or synergistic epidemic is a recent concept in epidemiology formed by uniting “synergy" (the interaction of two or more entities) and “emic" (on the people). Syndemic is defined as the aggregation of two or more concomitant or successive epidemics or disease clusters in a defined population with biological interactions, which exacerbate the prognosis and burden of disease and brought about by changes in socio-economic, environmental, cultural and/or political factors over time. Syndemogenesis is the processes, stages and ways of interactions that cause syndemic. The syndemic approach does not follow the biomedical approach to diseases in diagnosis, clinical description, and treatment independent of interaction with social contexts. There are three concomitant ways for syndemic interactions. First is mutual causality of diseases of the syndemic (e.g. X and Y, or Y and Z, or X and Z can cause of each). Secondly the synergistic interaction between the two diseases lead to an increase in the third one (both X and Y are effective on C separately and cause more burden of Z than the summation of increases X and Y would cause alone). Lastly serial causality (X causes Y and Y causes Z, and the increase of X and Y can lead to an excessive increase in Z).

DOI

10.21608/ejcm.2022.149987.1228

Keywords

pandemic, syndemic, syndemogenesis

Authors

First Name

Abdel-Hady

Last Name

El-Gilany

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Affiliation

faculty of medicine Mansoura university

Email

ahgilany@gmail.com

City

Mansoura

Orcid

0000-0001-9376-6985

Volume

41

Article Issue

1

Related Issue

38607

Issue Date

2023-01-01

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2022-07-11

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2023-01-01

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1

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2

Print ISSN

1110-1865

Online ISSN

2090-2611

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Editorials

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314

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Journal

Publication Title

The Egyptian Journal of Community Medicine

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https://ejcm.journals.ekb.eg/

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Syndemic and public health

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22 Jan 2023