Syndemic vs Pandemic - What's the difference?
syndemic | pandemic |
An aggregation of two or more diseases that interact synergistically within a population.
* 2009 , Elaine Marie Bennett, Understanding Childhood Malnutrition in a Maya Village in Guatemala (page 11)
Widespread; general.
(medicine) Epidemic over a wide geographical area and affecting a large proportion of the population.
A pandemic disease; a disease that hits a wide geographical area and affects a large proportion of the population.
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As nouns the difference between syndemic and pandemic
is that syndemic is an aggregation of two or more diseases that interact synergistically within a population while pandemic is a pandemic disease; a disease that hits a wide geographical area and affects a large proportion of the population.As an adjective pandemic is
widespread; general.syndemic
English
Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia syndemic)- In sum malnutrition, infectious disease, and cognitive impairment constitute a syndemic that is rooted in and perpetuates suboptimal social, political, and economic conditions.
pandemic
English
(wikipedia pandemic)Adjective
(en adjective)- World War I might have continued indefinitely if not for a pandemic outbreak of influenza.
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature , David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic , what epidemiologists call “the next big one.”}}
