TY - JOUR
KW - General Medicine
KW - Social determinants of health
KW - Fungal infections
KW - Working Conditions
KW - Health care access
KW - Structural Conflict
AU - Jenks JD
AU - Prattes J
AU - Wurster S
AU - Sprute R
AU - Seidel D
AU - Oliverio M
AU - Egger M
AU - Del Rio C
AU - Sati H
AU - Cornely OA
AU - Thompson GR
AU - Kontoyiannis DP
AU - Hoenigl M
AB - <p>Disparities&nbsp;in&nbsp;social determinants of health&nbsp;(SDOH) play a significant role in causing health inequities globally. The physical environment, including housing and workplace environment, can increase the prevalence and spread of&nbsp;fungal infections. A number of&nbsp;professions&nbsp;are associated with increased fungal infection risk and are associated with low pay, which may be linked to crowded and sub-optimal living conditions, exposure to fungal organisms, lack of access to&nbsp;quality health care, and risk for fungal infection. Those involved and displaced from areas of armed conflict have an increased risk of&nbsp;invasive fungal infections. Lastly, a number of fungal plant pathogens already threaten food security, which will become more problematic with global climate change. Taken together, disparities in SDOH are associated with increased risk for contracting fungal infections. More emphasis needs to be placed on systematic approaches to better understand the impact and reducing the health inequities associated with these disparities.</p>

BT - eClinicalMedicine
DO - 10.1016/j.eclinm.2023.102325
LA - Eng
N2 - <p>Disparities&nbsp;in&nbsp;social determinants of health&nbsp;(SDOH) play a significant role in causing health inequities globally. The physical environment, including housing and workplace environment, can increase the prevalence and spread of&nbsp;fungal infections. A number of&nbsp;professions&nbsp;are associated with increased fungal infection risk and are associated with low pay, which may be linked to crowded and sub-optimal living conditions, exposure to fungal organisms, lack of access to&nbsp;quality health care, and risk for fungal infection. Those involved and displaced from areas of armed conflict have an increased risk of&nbsp;invasive fungal infections. Lastly, a number of fungal plant pathogens already threaten food security, which will become more problematic with global climate change. Taken together, disparities in SDOH are associated with increased risk for contracting fungal infections. More emphasis needs to be placed on systematic approaches to better understand the impact and reducing the health inequities associated with these disparities.</p>

PB - Elsevier BV
PY - 2023
SP - 1
EP - 13
T2 - eClinicalMedicine
TI - Social determinants of health as drivers of fungal disease
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589537023005023/pdfft?md5=422a93829713381b05a403aaf36ccbbf&pid=1-s2.0-S2589537023005023-main.pdf
VL - 66
SN - 2589-5370
ER -