The syndemics model of health focuses on the biosocial complex, which consists of
interacting, co-present, or sequential diseases and the social and environmental factors that …

▪ Abstract This review explores the role of environments in creating chronic and acute health
disorders. A general framework for studying the nesting of social environments and the …

Recipient of the 2014 EDRA Achievement Award. Place attachments are emotional bonds
that form between people and their physical surroundings. These connections are a …

Latino immigrants in the United States constitute a paradigmatic case of a population group
subject to structural violence. Their subordinated location in the global economy and their …

Racial residential segregation is a fundamental cause of racial disparities in health. The
physical separation of the races by enforced residence in certain areas is an institutional …

This paper provides an overview of United States-based research on the ways in which
racism can affect mental health. It describes changes in racial attitudes over time, the …

The world of public health has undergone dramatic changes since the emergence of AIDS in
the early 1980s. The appearance and global spread in recent years of wave after wave of …

COVID-19 is not spreading over a level playing field; structural racism is embedded within
the fabric of American culture, infrastructure investments, and public policy and …

In the book, authors Howard Frumkin, Lawrence Frank, and Richard Jackson examine the
direct and indirect impacts of sprawl on human health and well-being, and discuss the …

There is increasing appreciation of the need to understand how social and structural factors
shape HIV risk. Drawing on a review of recently published literature, we seek to describe the …