SynthesisFrontiers in public health2023
Social determinants of multimorbidity patterns: A systematic review.
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111 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 132 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Impact of Social Determinants of Health on Post-operative Outcomes Following Robotic Radical Prostatectomy.Current oncology reports · 2025Pooled it
- Social determinants of multimorbidity in older adults in sub-saharan Africa: A systematic review.Palliative & supportive care · 2025Pooled it
- Profile of European frequent attenders in primary health care: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Family practice · 2025Pooled it
- Identifying clusters of multimorbid disease and differences by age, sex, and socioeconomic status: A systematic review.PloS one · 2025Pooled it
- Sociodemographic intersections and risk of multiple long-term conditions: A systematic review.PloS one · 2025Pooled it
- An intervention study of the general practice management of older adults with cardiovascular metabolic comorbidities.PloS one · 2026Trial
- The Health and Life in Balance intervention to improve patient capacity for older people with multimorbidity: a pragmatic mixed methods non-randomised pilot study.BMC primary care · 2025Trial
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- Psychological Burden and Diabetes Self-Management Behaviour Among Northern Saudi Adults with Type 2 Diabetes: A Cross-Sectional Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
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- Bespoke to the patient: a qualitative study on learning to manage multimorbidity in family medicine.Canadian medical education journal · 2026Article
- Health Literacy and Chronic Disease Self-Efficacy Among Older Adults with Multimorbidity: Evidence from Low-Resource Context.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Shared Experiences and Care Improvement Priorities for Multimorbidity Management: An Experience-Based Co-Design Study.Learning health systems · 2026Article
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- Comparative Analysis of Surrogate Insulin Resistance Indexes in Cardiometabolic Multimorbidity: A Cross-Sectional Study.Reviews in cardiovascular medicine · 2026Article
- Social determinants of intersectional inequalities in multimorbidity and its burden in China: a multilevel analysis of individual heterogeneity and discriminatory accuracy (MAIHDA).International journal for equity in health · 2026Article
- Changes in prevalence and patterns of non-communicable disease multimorbidity across socioeconomic spectra in rural Southwest China.Journal of health, population, and nutrition · 2026Article
- The structural roots of multimorbidity: social inequalities, health disparities, and systemic challenges in Southern Spain.International journal for equity in health · 2026Article
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Abstract
Social determinants of multimorbidity are poorly understood in clinical practice. This review aims to characterize the different multimorbidity patterns described in the literature while identifying the social and behavioral determinants that may affect their emergence and subsequent evolution. We searched PubMed, Embase, Scopus, Web of Science, Ovid MEDLINE, CINAHL Complete, PsycINFO and Google Scholar. In total, 97 studies were chosen from the 48,044 identified. Cardiometabolic, musculoskeletal, mental, and respiratory patterns were the most prevalent. Cardiometabolic multimorbidity profiles were common among men with low socioeconomic status, while musculoskeletal, mental and complex patterns were found to be more prevalent among women. Alcohol consumption and smoking increased the risk of multimorbidity, especially in men. While the association of multimorbidity with lower socioeconomic status is evident, patterns of mild multimorbidity, mental and respiratory related to middle and high socioeconomic status are also observed. The findings of the present review point to the need for further studies addressing the impact of multimorbidity and its social determinants in population groups where this problem remains invisible (e.g., women, children, adolescents and young adults, ethnic groups, disabled population, older people living alone and/or with few social relations), as well as further work with more heterogeneous samples (i.e., not only focusing on older people) and using more robust methodologies for better classification and subsequent understanding of multimorbidity patterns. Besides, more studies focusing on the social determinants of multimorbidity and its inequalities are urgently needed in low- and middle-income countries, where this problem is currently understudied.
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