"There's nowhere i can go to get help, and i have tooth pain right now": The oral health syndemic among migrant farmworkers in florida

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Abstract

This article explores the syndemic interaction between poverty, food insecurity, and limited access to dental care among migrant farm laborers in Central Florida. Although a great deal of syndemic research examines the role of pathogen-pathogen interaction (PPI; Singer ; Ventura and Mehra ), social factors, such as poverty, may be of greater importance than the pathogens that infect the body (Singer and Clair ) and demand increased research and policy attention. The data presented in this article show how poverty, food insecurity, and limited access to dental care work synergistically to exacerbate poor health conditions, presenting a syndemic that necessitates increased attention to mitigate poverty circumstances and promote what I call "oral health security" in an effort to advocate for vulnerable populations.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)387-401
Number of pages15
JournalAnnals of Anthropological Practice
Volume36
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 2012

Keywords

  • Farmworkers
  • Food insecurity
  • Health disparities
  • Latinos
  • Migrant health
  • Oral health
  • Syndemics

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