When HIV is ordinary and diabetes new: Remaking suffering in a South African Township

Global Public Health

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 449-462

  Mendenhall, Emily ^a,b   Norris, Shane A ^b  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

diabetes; HIV AIDS; mental health; social suffering; South Africa

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARTICLE; CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES DEPRESSION SCALE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE DURATION; EMOTIONAL ABUSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCOME; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PHYSICAL ABUSE; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL STRESS; SOUTH AFRICA; VERBAL HOSTILITY; AGED; BATTLE INJURY; BLACK PERSON; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMORBIDITY; COMPLICATION; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; HIV INFECTIONS; INTERVIEW; MENTAL STRESS; POLITICS; PREVALENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIOECONOMICS; VIOLENCE; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

ADULT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MIDDLE AGED; POLITICS; PREVALENCE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VIOLENCE; WAR-RELATED INJURIES; WOMEN'S HEALTH;

EID: 84924810849     PISSN: 17441692     EISSN: 17441706     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2014.998698     Document Type: Article

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