Overview
- Offers a substantively-focused introduction to syndemic theory
- Is a timely contribution given the growing research and interest in the theoretical and empirical framework of syndemics
- Offers new theoretical insights regarding the undercurrents in the at-risk communities
- Is of interest to researchers interested in health disparities and investigators and theoreticians involved in studying syndemics
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Social Disparities in Health and Health Care (SDHHC)
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This book examines the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States using the concept of syndemics to contextualize the risk of both well-known, and a few lesser-known, subpopulations that experience disproportionately high rates of HIV and/or AIDS within the United States. Since discovery, HIV/AIDS has exposed a number of social, psychological, and biological aspects of disease transmission. The concept of “syndemics,” or “synergistically interacting epidemics” has emerged as a powerful framework for understanding both the epidemiological patterns and the myriad of problems associated with HIV/AIDS around the world and within the United States. The book considers the disparities in HIV/AIDS in relation to social aspects, risk behavior and critical illness comorbidities. It updates and enhances our understanding of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the United States and contributes to the expanding literature on the role of syndemics in shaping the public’s health.
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Keywords
- HIV/AIDS Epidemic in the United States
- HIV/AIDS and Social Aspects of Disease Transmission
- Health Disparities in HIV/AIDS
- High Rates of HIV and/or AIDS within the United States.
- Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
- Pneumocystis Pneumonia among Drug-Using Gay Men
- Health Disparities among Bisexual Men
- Social Risks of HIV among Transgender Women
- HIV Prevention and Care for Black/ African American
- HIV Prevention and Care for Latinas in the United States
- HIV and Incarceration among African American Men
- Severe Mental Illness
- HIV Housing and Homelessness
- Syndemic Theory in HIV/AIDS
- infectious diseases
Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Understanding the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in the United States
Book Subtitle: The Role of Syndemics in the Production of Health Disparities
Editors: Eric R. Wright, Neal Carnes
Series Title: Social Disparities in Health and Health Care
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-34004-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-34002-9Published: 09 August 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81653-1Published: 07 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-34004-3Published: 30 July 2016
Series ISSN: 2468-6778
Series E-ISSN: 2468-6786
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 302
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology, general, Infectious Diseases, Quality of Life Research