TY - BOOK AU - Singer,Merrill TI - Introduction to syndemics: a critical systems approach to public and community health SN - 9780470472033 AV - RA652 .S56 2009 U1 - 362.1 22 PY - 2009/// CY - San Francisco, CA PB - Jossey-Bass KW - Syndemics KW - Poor KW - Health and hygiene KW - Health Status Disparities KW - Ecology KW - Healthcare Disparities KW - Social Medicine KW - Systems Theory N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Learning from lichen : reconceptualizing health and disease -- Trucking between the bailiwicks : multidisciplinarity, sava, and synergies in health -- Exemplars : syndemic case studies -- HIV/AIDS and other infections : immune imparity and syndemogenesis -- Beyond contagion : HIV/AIDS and noninfectious disease syndemogenesis -- Inequity as a cofactor : the syndemic impact of social disparities -- Syndemics and the worlds they made -- A world out of balance : emergent and reemergent ecosyndemics -- Practical utility : mobilizing the syndemic model in the promotion of health and treatment of disease ER -