Given our findings point to how intersecting structural determinants of health intensify during epidemic and pandemic periods, we were inspired by scholars who have applied #syndemic theory to COVID-19, HIV/AIDS, & substance use research. 9/10
Group A strep has killed at least 24 children in England in the last four months. This has experts debating whether something has caused children to be more vulnerable to infectious diseases this fall, and if so, what?
I'm excited to be able to share a recent publication (like, today recent) from @katalbrecht and I - addressing the #syndemic impact of COVID-19 and overdose on small towns in America. The localized syndemic assemblage is a way of thinking locally about global #PublicHealth threats and will hopefully lead to improved anticipation of synergistic public health crises.
Pandemics do not exist in isolation and COVID-19 is no exception. We argue that existing health crises, notably substance use disorder (SUD), developed syndemic relationships with COVID-19 that produced compounding deleterious effects. Combining Merrill Singer’s theory of syndemics and assemblage theory, we analyze the combinatory impact of overdose and COVID-19 within a localized context. We focus on Sandusky, Ohio, where we combine police reports, in-depth interviews with area residents, and ethnographic data to compare conditions before and after the emergence of COVID-19. We find dramatic shifts in relevant local contexts due to COVID-19, inhibiting existing systems of law and public policy aimed at overdose prevention and SUD treatment. Further, our findings provide evidence of complications in the COVID-19 response originating from the overdose epidemic.
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