ANTC68H3 Chapter Notes -Medical Anthropology, Syndemic, Biological Interaction
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Syndemics and public health reconceptualizing disease in bio-social context. Syndemic: term to label the synergistic interaction of two or more coexistent diseases and resultant excess burden of disease. Order imposed in health sector via nosology, a classification system for grouping and separating sickness events and labelling them according on a basis of shared and unshared features such as the international classification of diseases by the who. Nosology"s value: provides guidance in mobilizing effective response in prevention and treatment. Disease is an explanatory model and biomedicine has ascribed it to be discrete, objective, clinically identifiable, disjunctive and a boundable entity. Simplest population level: refers to two or more epidemics interacting synergistically and contributing as a result of their interaction to excess burden of disease in a population (by person, place or time) To prevent a syndemic, you must not only prevent the individual diseases but also the forces that bind them together.
