When will interdisciplinary dialogue in management of the COVID-19 syndemic?

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Authors

  • Constanza Jacques-Aviñó Institut Universitari d’Investigació en Atenció Primària (IDIAPJGol). Barcelona. España. / Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès). España.
  • Israel Rodríguez Giralt Internet Interdisciplinary Institute (IN3), Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Castelldefels (Barcelona). España.
  • Marisol E. Ruiz Instituto de Salud Pública, Facultad de Medicina, Universidad Austral de Chile. Valdivia (Isla Teja). Chile. / Colectivo Crítico por la Salud. Santiago. Chile.
  • Laura Medina-Perucha Institut Universitari d’Investigació en Atenció Primària (IDIAPJGol). Barcelona. España. / Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès). España.
  • María Sol Anigstein Colectivo Crítico por la Salud. Santiago. Chile. / Escuela de Salud Pública Salvador Allende, Departamento de Antropología, Universidad de Chile. Santiago. Chile.
  • Anna Berenguera Institut Universitari d’Investigació en Atenció Primària (IDIAPJGol). Barcelona. España. / Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Bellaterra (Cerdanyola del Vallès). España. / Facultat d’Infermeria, Universitat de Girona. Girona. España.

Keywords:

COVID-19, Gestión sanitaria, Sindemia

Abstract

Since countries and their institutions began to feel overwhelmed by COVID-19, it has not been surprising to hear the complaints, ailments and discomforts of millions of people who have experienced significant emotional and material losses. It has been a cluster of factors that have been crossed by biological, socioeconomic and cultural phenomena, interconnected with each other, and that have become structural. Despite the broad contribution of the scientific field to the study of this phenomenon, the different disciplines in general, and those from the Social Sciences in particular, have had little participation and opportunities for communication and research. A good indicator to assess the priorities that exist regarding the generation of knowledge is to observe the number of relevant publications and total citations, among which biomedical ones stand out. This invites a tremendously necessary debate since, if we consider the complexity of the phenomenon, we wonder why it has not been proportional to the collaboration of the different disciplines when approaching it. For this reason, it has seemed especially relevant to us as researchers in the Social Sciences in Health to share some reflections on how the response to the syndemic has been articulated. Our starting point is to propose management from an interdisciplinary and intersectoral perspective, as well as making use of the term syndemic to use an analysis framework that understands health from the complexity of the biopsychosociocultural, in which different diseases coexist (not only COVID -19) with social and environmental factors that interact with each other.

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2022-07-12

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Jacques-Aviñó C, Rodríguez Giralt I, Ruiz ME, Medina-Perucha L, Anigstein MS, Berenguera A. When will interdisciplinary dialogue in management of the COVID-19 syndemic? perspectiva25_jacques_avino_etal. Rev Esp Salud Pública [Internet]. 2022 Jul. 12 [cited 2024 Nov. 27];96:4 páginas. Available from: https://ojs.sanidad.gob.es/index.php/resp/article/view/360

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