Gender-Based Violence Syndemics in Global Health: A Systematic Review

L Vahedi, I Seff, AC Tsai, M Rfat, MS Aljamhan… - Social Science & …, 2025 - Elsevier
Global guidance indicates that gender and equity issues such as gender-based violence
(GBV) should be mainstreamed across sectors. One novel strategy that can be leveraged to …

[HTML][HTML] Ukuphumelela: Flourishing and the pursuit of a good life, and good health, in Soweto, South Africa

L Cele, SS Willen, M Dhanuka, E Mendenhall - SSM-Mental Health, 2021 - Elsevier
What does it mean to live a flourishing life in Soweto? This article investigates how people
residing in Soweto, located in South Africa's Gauteng province, define, experience, and …

Ethnographic methods for identifying cultural concepts of distress: Developing reliable and valid measures

JG Snodgrass, A Brewis, HJF Dengah… - Field …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
We review ethnographic methods that allow researchers to assess distress in a culturally
sensitive manner. We begin with an overview of standardized biomedical and psychological …

A mixed-methods, population-based study of a syndemic in Soweto, South Africa

E Mendenhall, AW Kim, A Panasci, L Cele… - Nature human …, 2022 - nature.com
A syndemic has been theorized as a cluster of epidemics driven by harmful social and
structural conditions wherein the interactions between the constitutive epidemics drive …

Prevalence of multimorbidity in men of African descent with and without prostate cancer in Soweto, South Africa

W Mapanga, SA Norris, A Craig, Y Pumpalova… - Plos one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Objective With increases in chronic disease, men with prostate cancer are likely to have at
least one other chronic health condition. The burden and complexity of each additional …

[HTML][HTML] Flourishing with chronic illness (es) and everyday stress: Experiences from Soweto, South Africa

M Schmidt-Sane, L Cele, EN Bosire, AC Tsai… - Wellbeing, space and …, 2023 - Elsevier
The pursuit of flourishing, or living a good life, is a common human endeavor with different
meanings across individuals and contexts. What is needed is a further exploration of the …

Novel Applications of Syndemic Theory for Global Public Health: Considerations for Gender Based Violence and Mixed Methods Research

L Vahedi - 2024 - search.proquest.com
Syndemic theory highlights that epidemics do not occur in isolation. Due to harmful political
inequalities, epidemics can co-occur and interact with one another to magnify the overall …

[PDF][PDF] SSM-Mental Health

L Cele, SS Willen, M Dhanuka, E Mendenhall - researchgate.net
What does it mean to live a flourishing life in Soweto? This article investigates how people
residing in Soweto, located in South Africa's Gauteng province, define, experience, and …