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Pandemic … or syndemic ? Re‐framing COVID‐19 disease burden and ‘underlying health conditions’
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and local responses to accelerated modernity, to the literature on climate change and options for systemic change. An overheated world has been forced to slow down. What can the long‐term consequences be? Or rather: How can alternative val-ues and societal models be strengthened as a result of the enforced cooling down?
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Metadata
- Authors
- Irons, R.
- Affiliations
- University College London (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Irons, Rebecca
- ORCID
- Irons, Rebecca
- Venue
- Social Anthropology
- Publisher
- Berghahn Books
- Published
- 2020-05
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 286-287
- ISSN
- 0964-0282 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-8676
- PMC
- PMC7276880
- OpenAlex
- W3025291950
- Cited by
- 21
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 1
- FWCI
- 0.56
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Social Anthropology (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Bristol Research (University of Bristol) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Explore Bristol Research (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Infectious Diseases › COVID-19 Clinical Research Studies
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Healthcare Systems and Challenges
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Historical and modern epidemiology studies
- Keywords
- COVID-19 pandemic, syndemic, disease burden, underlying disease, comorbidities, health disparities
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