Syndemic suffering: social distress, depression, and diabetes among mexican immigrant women
By: Mendenhall, Emily
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TextLanguage: English Publisher: United States of America -- Routledge -- 2012Description: 145pISBN: 9781611321425Subject(s): Diabetes in women | Diabetes | Health and hygiene | Women | Social conditions | Mexican American | SyndemicsDDC classification: 362.1964 MEN/S Summary: 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.
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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
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.