ReviewInternational journal of environmental research and public health2023
COVID-19, Mental Health, and Chronic Illnesses: A Syndemic Perspective.
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- Psychosocial stress from pre- to post-pandemic times: latent class mixed model analysis using data from a German cohort.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026Article
- Symptom, Functional, and Work Participation Profiles Among Racialized Canadians with Pre-Existing Mental Health Challenges and Long COVID: A Cross-Sectional Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Physical activity for public health in the 21st century.Nature medicine · 2026Review
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- Pre- and Post- COVID-19 Pandemic Pneumonia Rates in Hospitalized Schizophrenia Patients.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Observational
- SARS-CoV-2 Infection and the Risk of New Chronic Conditions: Insights from a Longitudinal Population-Based Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- African Americans' lived experiences with serious mental illness and cardiovascular disease: a syndemic perspective.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Re-imagining approaches for mental health and substance use health workforce regulation in Canada: Making room for dynamic tensions.PLOS mental health · 2025Article
- Evolution of Primary Research Studies in Digital Interventions for Mental Well-Being Promotion from 2004 to 2023: A Bibliometric Analysis of Studies on the Web of Science.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Review
- Epidemiological Evaluation of Events Allegedly Attributable to COVID-19 Vaccination: A Cross-Sectional Study in the Brazilian Amazon.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Absence of short-term changes in knowledge and attitudes among household contacts of COVID-19 cases during the post-acute phase of the pandemic in Catalonia and Navarre, Spain.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
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- Depression and Generalized Anxiety as Long-Term Mental Health Consequences of COVID-19 in Iraqi Kurdistan.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- The Effects of COVID-19 Lockdown on Social Connectedness and Psychological Distress in U.S. Adults with Chronic Diseases.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- The importance of teaching climate-health literacy in psychotherapeutic training and continuing education.F1000Research · 2023Article
- Conceptualizing COVID-19 syndemics: A scoping review.Journal of multimorbidity and comorbidityArticle
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3 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
backgroundThe COVID-19 pandemic is an epidemiological and psychological crisis; what it does to the body is quite well known by now, and more research is underway, but the syndemic impact of COVID-19 and mental health on underlying chronic illnesses among the general population is not completely understood.
methodsWe carried out a literature review to identify the potential impact of COVID-19 and related mental health issues on underlying comorbidities that could affect the overall health of the population.
resultsMany available studies have highlighted the impact of COVID-19 on mental health only, but how complex their interaction is in patients with comorbidities and COVID-19, the absolute risks, and how they connect with the interrelated risks in the general population, remain unknown. The COVID-19 pandemic can be recognized as a syndemic due to; synergistic interactions among different diseases and other health conditions, increasing overall illness burden, emergence, spread, and interactions between infectious zoonotic diseases leading to new infectious zoonotic diseases; this is together with social and health interactions leading to increased risks in vulnerable populations and exacerbating clustering of multiple diseases.
conclusionThere is a need to develop evidence to support appropriate and effective interventions for the overall improvement of health and psychosocial wellbeing of at-risk populations during this pandemic. The syndemic framework is an important framework that can be used to investigate and examine the potential benefits and impact of codesigning COVID-19/non-communicable diseases (NCDs)/mental health programming services which can tackle these epidemics concurrently.
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