A syndemics approach to exercise is medicine
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4965895 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Caitlin Vitosky Clarke (0000-0003-1745-8301, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, corresponding author), Brynn Adamson (0000-0002-1796-4047, University of Colorado Colorado Springs), Brynn C Adamson (University of Colorado Colorado Springs) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 323-344 |
| Publication date | 2023-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Health An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health Illness and Medicine (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1363-4593 • E-ISSN: 1461-7196 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/13634593211021481 |
| PMID | 34082584 |
| OpenAlex | W3164848338 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
| References cited | 89 |
This paper offers new insights into the promotion of the Exercise is Medicine (EIM) framework for mental illness and chronic disease. Utilising the Syndemics Framework, which posits mental health conditions as corollaries of social conditions, we argue that medicalized exercise promotion paradigms both ignore the social conditions that can contribute to mental illness and can contribute to mental illness via discrimination and worsening self-concept based on disability. We first address the ways in which the current EIM framework may be too narrow in scope in considering the impact of social factors as determinants of health. We then consider how this narrow scope in combination with the emphasis on independence and individual prescriptions may serve to reinforce stigma and shame associated with both chronic disease and mental illness. We draw on examples from two distinct research projects, one on exercise interventions for depression and one on exercise interventions for multiple sclerosis (MS), in order to consider ways to improve the approach to exercise promotion for these and other, related populations
Disease · Health promotion · Mental health · Mental illness · Political science · Psychiatry · Psychological intervention · Public health · Shame · Computer Science · Eating Disorders and Behaviors · Medicine · Nursing · Obesity and Health Practices · Physical Activity and Health · Psychology · Social Psychology
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| Unique citing works | 5 |
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| Citations per year | 1,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |