Leveraging anthropological expertise to respond to the COVID‐19 global mental health syndemic.
This commentary asks anthropologists to work within communities to actively address the global mental health impact of COVID‐19 and contribute to the pandemic response. Multiple social and physical losses, worsened by numerous factors, have produced syndemic traumatic stress and suffering across pop...
| Publicado en: | American Anthropologist Vol. 124; no. 3; pp. 622 - 628 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Sep2022
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