TY - JOUR
T1 - The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic
T2 - A syndemic perspective
AU - Fronteira, Inês
AU - Sidat, Mohsin
AU - Magalhães, João Paulo
AU - de Barros, Fernando Passos Cupertino
AU - Delgado, António Pedro
AU - Correia, Tiago
AU - Daniel-Ribeiro, Cláudio Tadeu
AU - Ferrinho, Paulo
N1 - Funding Information:
Paula Saraiva for the support with bibliography. Funda??o para a Ci?ncia e Tecnologia for funds to GHTM UID/04413/2020. CTDR is supported by CNPq, Brazil, through a Productivity Research Fellowship and is a ?Cientista do Nosso Estado? by Faperj, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Funding Information:
Paula Saraiva for the support with bibliography. Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia for funds to GHTM UID/04413/2020 . CTDR is supported by CNPq , Brazil, through a Productivity Research Fellowship and is a “Cientista do Nosso Estado” by Faperj, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 The Authors
PY - 2021/6
Y1 - 2021/6
N2 - The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has affected communities, populations, and countries throughout the world. As the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic developed, the extent to which the disease interacted with already existing endemic, non-communicable and infectious diseases became evident, hence deeply influencing health outcomes. Additionally, a synergistic effect has been demonstrated also with socio-economic, cultural, and contextual determinants of health which seem to contribute to poorer health and accumulating social disadvantages. In this essay, using as a starting point the syndemic theory that translates the cumulative and intertwined factors between different epidemics, we argue that the SARS-CoV-2 is a one health issue of a syndemic nature and that the failure to acknowledge this contributes to weakened policy-making processes and public health responses and ineffective health policies and programs.
AB - The SARS-CoV-2 pandemic has affected communities, populations, and countries throughout the world. As the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic developed, the extent to which the disease interacted with already existing endemic, non-communicable and infectious diseases became evident, hence deeply influencing health outcomes. Additionally, a synergistic effect has been demonstrated also with socio-economic, cultural, and contextual determinants of health which seem to contribute to poorer health and accumulating social disadvantages. In this essay, using as a starting point the syndemic theory that translates the cumulative and intertwined factors between different epidemics, we argue that the SARS-CoV-2 is a one health issue of a syndemic nature and that the failure to acknowledge this contributes to weakened policy-making processes and public health responses and ineffective health policies and programs.
KW - COVID-19
KW - Health in all policies
KW - One health
KW - SARS-CoV-2
KW - Syndemic
KW - NCD
KW - Non Communicable Diseases
KW - NTD
KW - neglected tropical diseases
KW - SDG
KW - sustainable development goals
KW - health policy
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85101336579&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.onehlt.2021.100228
DO - 10.1016/j.onehlt.2021.100228
M3 - Review article
C2 - 33614885
AN - SCOPUS:85101336579
SN - 2352-7714
VL - 12
SP - 1
EP - 7
JO - One Health
JF - One Health
M1 - 100228
ER -
