Syndemics and Public Health: Reconceptualizing Disease in Bio-Social Context

Medical Anthropology Quarterly

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 423-441

  Singer, Merrill ^a   Clair, Scott ^b  

^a HISPANIC HEALTH COUNCIL   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; COMORBIDITY; CONCEPT FORMATION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENDEMIC DISEASE; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN T CELL LEUKEMIA VIRUS 1; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MYCOBACTERIUM TUBERCULOSIS; NONHUMAN; POPULATION; PREVALENCE; REVIEW; SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIOLOGY; SURVIVAL; WART VIRUS;

EID: 0842308917     PISSN: 07455194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1525/maq.2003.17.4.423     Document Type: Review

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