TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mendenhall, Emily 
TI  - Syndemic suffering: social distress, depression, and diabetes among mexican immigrant women
SN  - 9781611321425
U1  - 362.1964 MEN/S 
PY  - 2012///
CY  - United States of America -- 
PB  - Routledge -- 
KW  - Diabetes in women
KW  - Diabetes
KW  - Health and hygiene
KW  - Women
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Mexican American
KW  - Syndemics
N1  - Introduction 

Chapter 1: Synthesising the Syndemic 

Chapter 2: Synergy of the Self: Enduring Syndemic Suffering 

Chapter 3: Unpacking VIDDA: An Analysis of Social Distress 

Chapter 4: Borderlands: Immigration, Integration, and Isolation 

Chapter 5: Narrative to Mechanism: Understanding Distress and Diabetes


N2  - This book is the first to analyse diabetes through a syndemic framework, making a major contribution to the study of diabetes. It offers a model study of chronic disease disparity among the poor in high-income countries
ER  -