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The SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic: A Syndemic Perspective

Overview
Journal One Health
Specialty Infectious Diseases
Date 2021 Feb 22
PMID 33614885
Citations 54
Authors
Ines Fronteira
Mohsin Sidat
Joao Paulo Magalhaes
Fernando Passos Cupertino de Barros
Antonio Pedro Delgado
Tiago Correia
Claudio Tadeu Daniel-Ribeiro
Paulo Ferrinho
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Abstract

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.

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