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What you'll learn

What syndemics is and how it was developed.

How to quantitatively identify if health and social conditions cluster and whether an interaction leads to a higher burden of disease than expected.

How qualitative research can be used to explore syndemics.

How you can combine qualitative approaches with quantitative research methods to gain a more comprehensive understanding of a syndemic.

Skills you'll gain

Health Disparities

Community Health

Chronic Diseases

Socioeconomics

Research Design

Qualitative Research

Epidemiology

Social Sciences

Research Methodologies

Public Health

Infectious Diseases

There are 5 modules in this course

Are you disappointed in the poor effectiveness of interventions for combined social and medical problems? Then this syndemics course might provide you with some answers. In medicine, diseases are generally approached as distinct entities, in isolation from other diseases ánd the social contexts in which the disease occurs. However, in disadvantaged populations accumulations of risk factors intertwine with complex social problems leading to excessive burdens of disease and interventions with poor effectiveness. For that reason, alternative approaches are needed that do not separate diseases from the contexts of inequality and health disparity in which they develop. The simultaneous presence of more than one disease is not treated as co-morbidity; a syndemic approach pays attention to the forces that tie afflictions together. This course will learn you about the concept of syndemcs and how to explore these combined medical and social problems. It will cover different research methods (quantitative, qualitative and mixed-method research) that can be used in studying syndemics.

Syndemic Theory

Interaction in Syndemics

Context in Syndemics

Mixed methods