Does The World Need A New Buzzword — 'Syndemic' — To Describe 3 Big Crises?
A new report in 'The Lancet' uses a not-too-familiar term to describe looming global problems that appear to be interconnected.
The Lancet Commission on Obesity has announced that the world is suffering from a "syndemic" of obesity, undernutrition and climate change.
But ... what, exactly, is a syndemic?
The term was first coined in the 1990s to describe the way different diseases interact within the human body. It's popped up in medical journals for the last two decades, often used to describe the biological interactions in patients who who have AIDS and are substance abusers.
Now, by the Lancet Commission is
