Inequity and vulnerability in Latin American Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations with rheumatic diseases: a syndemic approach.

ABSTRACT: Syndemics are a framework that documents health inequities and vulnerabilities in populations with rheumatic diseases. Compared with other approaches, syndemics are able to conjunctly consider epidemiological, biological, sociodemographic and economic factors, and their interactions.

Objective

To estimate health inequity and vulnerability among Indigenous and non-Indigenous populations with rheumatic and musculoskeletal diseases (RMD) in Latin America using the syndemic approach.

Design

This is a secondary analysis of a previously published large-scale study on the prevalence of RMD.

Setting

Studies carried out in five Latin American countries (Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico and Venezuela). Health inequity and vulnerability in RMD were identified through a syndem

SUBMITTER: Granados Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10040077 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature