[When it will be possible the interdisciplinary dialogue about the management of the COVID-19 syndemic?]

Abstract

Since countries and their institutions began to feel overwhelmed by COVID-19, it has not been surprising to hear the complaints, ailments and discomforts of millions of people who have experienced significant emotional and material losses. It has been a cluster of factors that have been crossed by biological, socioeconomic and cultural phenomena, interconnected with each other, and that have become structural. Despite the broad contribution of the scientific field to the study of this phenomenon, the different disciplines in general, and those from the Social Sciences in particular, have had little participation and opportunities for communication and research. A good indicator to assess the priorities regarding the generation of knowledge is to observe the number of relevant publications and total citations, among which biomedical ones stand out . This invites a tremendously necessary debate since, considering the complexity of the phenomenon, we wonder why it has not been proportional to the collaboration of the different disciplines when considering its approach.