“Syndemic” derives from the Greek συν (together) and δήμος (people), with “νόσημα” meaning (pathology). A syndemic is in fact the presence of two or more coactive pathologies interacting negatively, the course of each leading to an increased vulnerability.
In the 1990s, Merril Singer, an American medical anthropologist, conceived the term and defined it as, “The concentration and deleterious interaction of two or more diseases or other health conditions in a population, especially as a consequence of social inequity and the unjust exercise of power.” The COVID-19 pandemic therefore not only had a devastating impact on the physical health of Italian citizens and on a country that is constantly in governmental and economic crisis, but also on
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