Introduction to syndemics: a critical systems approach to public and community health

Introduction to Syndemics: A Critical Systems Approach to Public and Community Health explains the use of systems approaches for bringing together the largest possible picture for understanding health issues afflicting those most vulnerable in our society. This book, for faculty, students, researchers, and practitioners in public health, health policy, medical anthropology, and social work, explains new ways of understanding the health of the poor by looking at the whole and to considering the interconnections among the parts, how they promote and reinforce each other and thereby create thereby a complex and burdensome web of interwoven health and social problems in other words, syndemics. Endorsed by the Centers for Disease Control and Research (which hosts a website on syndemics), the syndemics orientation complements single-issue prevention strategies, which can be effective for discrete problems, but often are mismatched to the goal of protecting the public's health in its widest sense. Throughscholarship, action, reflection, and networking, public health scientists arediscovering how a syndemic orientation fosters a deeper understanding of essential relationships and opens new pathways for fulfilling the transformative potential of public health work. It is an action-oriented approach to public health based on the ecological model.

• ISBN: 978-0-470-47203-3
• Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 304
• Fecha Publicación: 17/07/2009
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés