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Bulled N, Singer M, Dillingham R. The syndemics of childhood diarrhoea: a biosocial perspective on efforts to combat global inequities in diarrhoea-related morbidity and mortality. Glob Public Health. 2014;9(7):841-53doi: 10.1080/17441692.2014.924022.
Bulled, N., Singer, M., & Dillingham, R. (2014). The syndemics of childhood diarrhoea: a biosocial perspective on efforts to combat global inequities in diarrhoea-related morbidity and mortality. Global public health, 9(7), 841-53. https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2014.924022
Bulled, Nicola, et al. "The syndemics of childhood diarrhoea: a biosocial perspective on efforts to combat global inequities in diarrhoea-related morbidity and mortality." Global public health vol. 9,7 (2014): 841-53. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/17441692.2014.924022
Bulled N, Singer M, Dillingham R. The syndemics of childhood diarrhoea: a biosocial perspective on efforts to combat global inequities in diarrhoea-related morbidity and mortality. Glob Public Health. 2014;9(7):841-53. doi: 10.1080/17441692.2014.924022. Epub 2014 Jul 08. PMID: 25005132; PMCID: PMC4130744.
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Glob Public Health. 2014;9(7):841-53. doi: 10.1080/17441692.2014.924022. Epub 2014 Jul 08.

The syndemics of childhood diarrhoea: a biosocial perspective on efforts to combat global inequities in diarrhoea-related morbidity and mortality.

Global public health

Nicola Bulled, Merrill Singer, Rebecca Dillingham

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  1. a The Center for Global Health , University of Virginia , Charlottesville , VA , USA.

PMID: 25005132 PMCID: PMC4130744 DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2014.924022

Abstract

Diarrhoea remains the second leading cause of death in children under 5 years. Moreover, morbidity as a result of diarrhoea is high particularly in marginalised communities. Frequent bouts of diarrhoea have deleterious and irreversible effects on physical and cognitive development. Children are especially vulnerable given their inability to mount an active immune response to pathogen exposure. Biological limitations are exacerbated by the long-term effects of poverty, including reduced nutrition, poor hygiene and deprived home environments. Drawing from available literature, this paper uses syndemic theory to explore the role of adverse biosocial interactions in increasing the total disease burden of enteric infections in low-resources populations and assesses the limitations of recent global calls to action. The syndemic perspective describes situations in which adverse social conditions, including inequality, poverty and other forms of political and economic oppression, play a critical role in facilitating disease-disease interactions. Given the complex micro- and macro-nature of childhood diarrhoea, including interactions between pathogens, disease conditions and social environments, the syndemic perspective offers a way forward. While rarely the focus of health interventions, technologically advanced biomedical strategies are likely to be more effective if coupled with interventions that address the social conditions of disparity.

Keywords: biosocial model; childhood diarrhoea; syndemic

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