Moreover, the term syndemics also points to the determinant importance of social conditions in disease concentrations, interactions, and health consequences.
The term oppression illness refers to the internalization of social discrimination and the health consequences of coming to accept one does not deserve to be healthy.
The term pluralea refers to the adverse intersection of environmental crises and their health effects.
Responding to ways illegal drug users are vilified, Singer argues that by using language of blame to describe drug users as responsible for deteriorating urban centers, “attention is diverted from the role of class inequality as a source of social misery.” Singer has been the principal investigator on a series of U.S. federal and foundation funded drinking, drug use, and AIDS prevention grants since 1984.
Recent grants include: Additionally, he is co-editor with Pamela Erickson of the book series Advances in Critical Medical Anthropology with Left Coast Press.