“There's Nowhere I Can Go to Get Help, and I Have Tooth Pain Right Now”: The Oral Health Syndemic Among Migrant Farmworkers in Florida

Kline, Nolan

doi:10.1111/napa.12010

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“…The syndemic framework has been applied over the years to understand the dynamics of migrant health, health disparities, malnutrition, violence (including intimate partner violence), sexual health, substance abuse, mental health, oral health, HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and other infectious diseases, and non-communicable diseases (NCD) (such as diabetes mellitus, cardiopulmonary conditions, obesity or kidney disease) [ 22 , [25] , [26] , [27] , [28] , [29] , [30] , [31] , [32] , [33] , [34] , [35] , [36] , [37] , [38] , [39] , [40] , [41] ].…”

Section: Syndemic Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: A syndemic perspective

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The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has affected communities, populations, and countries throughout the world. As the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic developed, the extent to which the disease interacted with already existing endemic, non-communicable and infectious diseases became evident, hence deeply influencing health outcomes. Additionally, a synergistic effect has been demonstrated also with socio-economic, cultural, and contextual determinants of health which seem to contribute to poorer health and accumulating social disadvantages. In this essay, using as a starting point the syndemic theory that translates the cumulative and intertwined factors between different epidemics, we argue that the SARS-CoV-2 is a one health issue of a syndemic nature and that the failure to acknowledge this contributes to weakened policy-making processes and public health responses and ineffective health policies and programs.

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Section: Syndemic Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: A syndemic perspective

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“…Perhaps the most widely read descriptions of such interactions are Paul Farmer and Jim Kim's research on HIV/AIDS and tuberculosis, which underscores the inherent roles of poverty and structural violence in the clustering of these two diseases (see Farmer et al ). Others have illustrated the relationship of social suffering and clustered mental and physical health problems, including exemplars of food security and HIV/AIDS (see Himmelgreen et al ), tuberculosis and diabetes (see Pablos‐Mendez et al ), oral health among migrant workers (Kline ), and the food insecurity and obesity paradox (Everett and Wieland ). Some of these exemplars are rooted in ethnographic work; others apply social epidemiology to understand and interpret syndemics.…”

Section: Syndemicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Beyond Comorbidity: A Critical Perspective of Syndemic Depression and Diabetes in Cross‐cultural Contexts

Mendenhall

2015

Med Anthropol Q

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This article examines the comorbidity concept in medical anthropology. I argue that the dearth of articles on comorbidity in medical anthropology may result from the rise of syndemic theory. Syndemics recognize how social realities shape individual illness experiences as well as distribution of diseases across populations. I discuss synergistic interactions foundational to the syndemics construct through my research of depression and diabetes comorbidity in vulnerable populations from urban United States, India, and South Africa. I argue that social and economic factors that cluster with depression and diabetes alone and together exemplify the biosocial processes that are at the heart of syndemics. In doing so, I illustrate how social, cultural, and economic factors shape individual-level experiences of co-occurring diseases despite similar population-level trends. Finally, I discuss the relevance of syndemics for the fields of medicine and public health while cautioning what must not be lost in translation across disciplines.

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“…Halkitis et al, 2013;Illangasekare et al, 2013;Meyer et al, 2011;Mustanski et al, 2007). Other research, including publications from a recent special issue of Annals of Anthropological Practice, has identified syndemic interactions between poverty and dental care (Kline 2013), tuberculosis and helminths (Littleton et al, 2013), and the effects of war on societal organization and infrastructure and the subsequent impacts on health (Ostrach and Singer, 2013).…”

Section: Syndemicsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Modeling the spread of the 1918 Influenza pandemic in a Newfoundland community

Dimka¹

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Infectious disease epidemics have played and continue to play important roles in human populations. At different geographical levels, the spread of epidemics are affected by multiple demographic, social, cultural, political, economic, and other factors. Variation in these factors often produces different local or regional outcomes, so it is important for researchers to understand how individual behaviors and interactions can produce and explain larger patterns of disease spread. In small, traditional communities, important factors include settlement and household organization, daily behaviors, and relationships among residents. This research uses two computer simulation models to test the relative impact of these factors on disease spread in a small study community in Newfoundland and Labrador in the early 20th century, using data from the 1918 flu pandemic and other archival sources. In the agent-based model, which emphasizes movement to important social spaces, schoolchildren drive the size and timing of epidemics. In the social network model, which reflects important relationships among community residents, epidemics begun by adult women tend to be slower and smaller than epidemics begun by other types of individuals. These results demonstrate that, based on their roles in the community, members of different age and sex groups can strongly affect epidemic outcomes. Further, because simulation models are often used to develop or recommend public health policies or intervention strategies, the different results of the two models indicate the importance of selecting appropriate design features to ensure the best possible recommendations.

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“There's Nowhere I Can Go to Get Help, and I Have Tooth Pain Right Now”: The Oral Health Syndemic Among Migrant Farmworkers in Florida

Cited by 7 publications

References 67 publications

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: A syndemic perspective

The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic: A syndemic perspective

Beyond Comorbidity: A Critical Perspective of Syndemic Depression and Diabetes in Cross‐cultural Contexts

Modeling the spread of the 1918 Influenza pandemic in a Newfoundland community

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