Syndemics and health disparities: a methodological note

AC Tsai, AS Venkataramani - AIDS and Behavior, 2016 - Springer
In the theory of syndemics, diseases are hypothesized to co-occur in particular temporal or
geographical contexts due to harmful social conditions (disease concentration) and to …

Syndemics of psychosocial problems and HIV risk: A systematic review of empirical tests of the disease interaction concept

AC Tsai, BFO Burns - Social Science & Medicine, 2015 - Elsevier
In the theory of syndemics, diseases co-occur in particular temporal or geographical
contexts due to harmful social conditions (disease concentration) and interact at the level of …

Spatial epidemiology: An empirical framework for syndemics research

S Shrestha, CXC Bauer, B Hendricks… - Social Science & Medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
Syndemics framework describes two or more co-occurring epidemics that synergistically
interact with each other and the complex structural social forces that sustain them leading to …

Syndemics: a theory in search of data or data in search of a theory?

AC Tsai - Social Science & Medicine, 2018 - Elsevier
The concept of a syndemic was proposed more than two decades ago to explain how large-
scale social forces might give rise to co-occurring epidemics that synergistically interact to …

Application of syndemic theory to black men who have sex with men in the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study

TP Dyer, S Shoptaw, TE Guadamuz, M Plankey… - Journal of Urban …, 2012 - Springer
This study analyzed data from a large prospective epidemiologic cohort study among men
who have sex with men (MSM), the Multicenter AIDS Cohort Study, to assess syndemic …

Commentary on “Syndemics of psychosocial problems and HIV risk: A systematic review of empirical tests of the disease interaction concept” by A. Tsai and B. Burns.

R Stall, RWS Coulter, MR Friedman, MW Plankey - 2015 - psycnet.apa.org
Comments on an article by A. Tsai & B. Burns (see record 2015-35061-004). The paper by
Tsai and Burns makes clear that the past decade has witnessed a great deal of interest in …

Syndemic theory, structural violence and HIV among African–Americans

BA Godley, AA Adimora - Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS, 2020 - journals.lww.com
These studies have yielded valuable insights into links between HIV-related outcomes and
mental health, experience of violence and abuse, and substance use. But a key feature–and …

Combining intersectionality and syndemic theory to advance understandings of health inequities among Canadian gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with …

O Ferlatte, T Salway, T Trussler, JL Oliffe… - Critical Public …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Syndemics (socially produced intertwined epidemics) of psychosocial issues have been
shown empirically to increase the risk of HIV infection among gay, bisexual and other men …

Co-occurring epidemics, syndemics, and population health

AC Tsai, E Mendenhall, JA Trostle, I Kawachi - The Lancet, 2017 - thelancet.com
As originally theorised, three concepts underlie the notion of a syndemic: disease
concentration, disease interaction, and the large-scale social forces that give rise to them. 1 …

[HTML][HTML] Syndemic theory, methods, and data

E Mendenhall, T Newfield, AC Tsai - Social Science & Medicine …, 2022 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Many scholars and practitioners have drawn on the theory of syndemics to make sense of
the pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory …