ReviewLancet (London, England)2017
Syndemic vulnerability and the right to health.
Review in Lancet (London, England), 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 88 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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88 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Survivor, family and professional experiences of psychosocial interventions for sexual abuse and violence: a qualitative evidence synthesis.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Violence motivated by perception of sexual orientation and gender identity: a systematic review.Bulletin of the World Health Organization · 2018Pooled it
- Integrating mathematical modelling and artificial intelligence to combat emerging viral syndemics: A systematic review.New microbes and new infections · 2026Review
- School nurse staffing: A key factor in enhancing school quality in Georgia.Nursing outlook · 2026Article
- Gender, Acculturation, and Health-Related Quality of Life Among the Arab Ethnic Minority: A Syndemics Approach.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2026Article
- A scoping review of rapid-onset climate-related disasters & gender-based violence against women.Climate risk management · 2026Article
- Multidimensional health poverty among diabetic adults in China: evidence from the China Kadoorie Biobank.Archives of public health = Archives belges de sante publique · 2026Article
- Storying syndemics: understanding migrant women's experiences of diabetes and distress through narratives of self-care.BMC public health · 2026Article
- CKD in Migrants: From Epidemiology to Challenges.Kidney international reports · 2026Review
- Community health workers andFrontiers in public health · 2026Review
- Procedural pain in pediatric care: educational, ethical, and public health imperatives.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2026Article
- Mental health in the time of polycrisis: geopolitical determinants and modern psychiatry.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Rapid response intervention for assessing health needs in newly arrived migrants in Catalonia: a community-based, descriptive study.BMJ public health · 2026Article
- Psychosocial vulnerability of people working in informal gold mines in French Guiana: a multicentric cross-sectional survey in 2024-2025.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Integrating evidence-based health approaches in U.S. healthcare settings: addressing the syndemics of poverty, health, and violence.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Scaling up point-of-care hepatitis C testing in Canada: protocol for a multilevel implementation science study of clinical processes, barriers, facilitators and implementation strategies (SCALE-POCT study).Implementation science communications · 2025Article
- Community-based strategies for tuberculosis control in migrant communities: how to integrate determinants of vulnerability into decision-making.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Help provided by community-dwelling older adults in the Netherlands during the COVID-19 pandemic.BMC geriatrics · 2025Article
- A crisis in the shadows: public health outcomes and barriers to care for children of North Korean defectors in China.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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Abstract
Investigators working both in syndemics, a field of applied health research with roots in medical anthropology, and in the field of health and human rights recognise that upstream social, political, and structural determinants contribute more to health inequities than do biological factors or personal choices. Syndemics investigates synergistic, often deleterious interactions among comorbid health conditions, especially under circumstances of structural and political adversity. Health and human rights research draws on international law to argue that all people deserve access not only to health care, but also to the underlying determinants of good health. Taking the urgent matter of migrant health as an empirical focus, we juxtapose the fields of syndemics and health and human rights, identify their complementarities, and advocate for a combined approach. By melding insights from these fields, the combined syndemics/health and human rights approach advanced here can provide clinicians and other key stakeholders with concrete insights, tools, and strategies to tackle the health inequities that affect migrants and other vulnerable groups by: (1) mapping the effect of social, political, and structural determinants on health; (2) identifying opportunities for upstream intervention; and (3) working collaboratively to tackle the structures, institutions, and processes that cause and exacerbate health inequities. Undergirding this approach is an egalitarian interpretation of the right to health that differs from narrow legalistic and individual interpretations by insisting that all people are equal in worth and, as a result, equally deserving of protection from syndemic vulnerability.
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