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TL;DR
This narrative review examines how multimorbidity has been constructed within global health and argues that current approaches risk reproducing the same single-disease categories they seek to challenge.
Journal of Multimorbidity and Comorbidity · 6 authors, 7 centres
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This narrative review examines how multimorbidity has been constructed within global health and argues that current approaches risk reproducing the same single-disease categories they seek to challenge.
This narrative review analyses how multimorbidity is framed within global health, drawing on social science research from sub-Saharan Africa. The authors trace historical processes through which morbidity was made divisible in biomedicine and how single-disease frameworks became integral to disease control and biopolitical power. They observe that multimorbidity, though intended to challenge single-disease approaches, is assembled from the same historically loaded categories it exposes as breaking down. The article highlights the limited traction of care integration frameworks in practice and argues that efforts to align disciplines around a standardised biomedical definition risk retracing prior steps.