Citation

Caiaffa WT, Andrade RG. Subst. Use Misuse 2015; 50(7): 894-898.

Affiliation

1Belo Horizonte Observatory for Urban Health (OSUBH), Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG) , Belo Horizonte , Brazil.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.3109/10826084.2015.1042289

PMID

26158750

Abstract

This commentary reviews two manuscripts about big event empirical data exploring concepts and pathways of drug use and health-related events. Using basic concepts and tools, it proposes a focused framework in order to help comprehension of the multifactorial and multilevel components between macrosocial determinants of health, contextual pathways of drug use and drug-use harm and individual levels in the episode of a big event occurrence. The text also discusses implications of preexisting conditions that may be contributing factors for socially and economically segregated subsets of the population, groups possibly "at risk of risks," meaning unequally exposed to risks that generate exposure to other risks, amplifying preexistent inequities.

Language: en