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Wikipedia Entry for
Syndemic
As the compendium of knowledge on diseases has advanced it has become
increasingly clear that diseases do not usually exist in isolation from
other diseases and health conditions, that synergistic disease
interactions are of considerable importance to disease course and
consequence, and that the social conditions of disease sufferers are
critical to understanding the clustering and spread of disease, its
expression in signs and symptoms, and its health impact at the
individual and population levels.
Hygeia's Constellation: Navigating Health
Futures in a Dynamic and Democratic World
This report examines how public health work is transforming and reorienting
in the context of contemporary challenges. It concentrates on several linked
innovations in thinking and action, set against historical examples and
current trends. With those directions in mind, it then considers the
pragmatic work that we must now do, as citizens of a pluralistic and
increasingly fast-moving world, to assure safer, healthier conditions for
ourselves and for generations to come.
Milstein B. Syndemics Prevention Network, CDC. 2008.
AJPH Theme Issue on Systems Thinking and
Modeling
The American Journal of Public Health (AJPH), in
collaboration with the National Cancer Institute and the Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention, published a collection of
papers demonstrating how the principles and techniques of
systems thinking and modeling can be used effectively and
ethically by public health professionals. Leischow S,
Milstein B, guest editors. American Journal of
Public Health 2006;96(3)
NIH/CDC Symposia Series on Systems Science and Health
A four-part educational series featuring leaders in various areas of systems
science and public health. The purposes are to (1) raise awareness of
particularly promising methodologies; and (2) improve our collective
understanding about how and when they may be used effectively by behavioral
and social scientists (including researchers, policy analysts,
planners/evaluators, grant reviewers, journal editors, and government
officials).
NIH Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Research and the CDC Syndemics Prevention Network, March--August, 2007)
Protecting Health: the New Research Imperative
To truly transform the current scientific enterprise and accelerate
access to the information needed to protect the public, it is essential to
create a future that addresses 4 key health protection research challenges:
content, complexity, competencies, and capacity.
Gerberding J. Journal of the American Medical Association 2005;294(11):1403-1406.
Omics, Epidemics, Syndemics, Pandemics… Global Health Protection in the 21st
Century  (PPT-3.45M)
Today′s science offers an integrated approach to emerging urgent threats,
such as infectious disease or natural disasters, and ongoing urgent
realities, such as obesity and heart disease. In the small world networks of
the 21st century, public health is moving toward more connectivity,
innovation, and collaboration to build strong networks to ensure healthy
people in a healthy world.
Gerberding J. Stanford University, 2007.
Health Protectionomics: A New Science of People, Policy, and Politics
A macroscopic view of public health work, including a focus on syndemics, is
increasingly important as a scientific foundation for protecting the
public's health.
Gerberding J. George Washington University, 2007.
Greater Than the Sum: Systems Thinking in Tobacco Control
This monograph describes key lessons from the first two years of the
Initiative on the Study and Implementation of Systems (ISIS). The ISIS
project, funded by the National Cancer Institute, was one of the first major
coordinated efforts to explore the application of systems thinking
approaches and methodologies to public health. In a groundbreaking
approach to tobacco control, this report gives those in tobacco control and
in public health a new approach and a set of methodologies to achieve
further change.
Best A, Clark P, Leischow S, Trochim W,
editors. National Cancer Institute, 2007.
Reducing Healthcare Costs Through Prevention(PDF–565K)
The report from the Prevention Institute and The California Endowment with
the Urban Institute, suggests that a majority of the most costly health
conditions are preventable and just a 5% reduction in preventable illnesses
and injuries could lead to substantial savings. Even end-of-life care
expenses, often discussed as a virtual fixed cost, display reductions from
prevention.
Prevention Institute, California Endowment, Urban Institute, 2007.
Syndemics
Research Website
This website fosters global interaction and collaboration among researchers
and others interested in syndemics, the understanding of which constitutes part
of the new understanding in biology, public health, and the medical social
sciences.
University of Connecticut, 2008.
CDC's Health Protection
Goals
CDC is committed to achieving true improvements in people’s lives by
accelerating health impact and reducing health disparities. CDC has created
a set of four overarching Health Protection Goals, which are supported by a
number of strategic goals and objectives.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2008.
Designing and Building Healthy
Places
As we embark into the 21st century, the interaction between people and their
environments, natural as well as human-made, continues to emerge as a major
issue concerning public health.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 2008.
Tackling Health Inequalities Through Public Health Practice(PDF–2.3M)
This edited volume explores the implications of growing health inequities
for the work of local health departments (LHDs). Health inequities—which
result from an unequal structuring of life chances—are systemic, avoidable,
unfair and unjust differences in health status and mortality rates, as well
as in the distribution of disease and illness across population groups. They
are sustained over time and generations and beyond the control of
individuals. What can LHDs do to eliminate them?
Hofrichter R, editor. National Association of County and City
Health Officials, Ingham County Health Department, 2007.
Reaching for a Healthier Life: Facts on Socioeconomic Status and Health in
the USA(PDF–928K)
There are substantial disparities in health and longevity among different
sectors of the US population. Who suffers from poorer health and greater
premature mortality? How do these differences come about? What can be done
to eliminate these disparities?
Adler N, Stewart J. John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, 2007.
Complex Systems Approaches to Population Health
This two-day meeting sought catalyze the translation and application of
complex systems approaches in areas of the population’s health where there
is great promise. Complex problems demand contributions from multiple
disciplines, and brought together experts from epidemiology, sociology,
biology, political science, physical sciences, public and health policy,
economics, and mathematics.
University of Michigan, 2007.
Public health: implementation science
Researchers and funders need to use systems approaches that are beginning to
translate research not only to the bedside but also to global health
programs.
Madon T, Hofman K, Kupfer L, Glass R. Science 14 December 2007:
Vol. 318. no. 5857, pp. 1728 - 1729.
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Page last modified: January 30, 2008
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