Social cohesion refers to the extent to connectedness and solidarity among groups in society (Kiwachi I and Berkman L.).
Consider, for this short treatment that the word disease includes the presupposition of the ontological and epistemological death of the Black being; and the word illness to include the physical and spiritual implications of the disease.
The ability to navigate and the effects that it has on the subjects who are unable to meet those requirements of navigation have been shown to have an influence on the prevalence of disease, even in more pervasive forms of illness. According to Durkheim, a cohesive society is marked by the abundance of “mutual moral support, which instead of throwing the individual on his own resources, leads them to share in collective energy and suppress his own when exhausted (1897, 1997, p.210)
Successful navigation and the formation of socially cohesive attachments can positively affect the subject in a way that could possibly make them more resilient to the prevalence of disease than those without these attachments that are deemed most important within the subjects' society. With this understanding, we can begin to move toward implementing interventions that attempt to modify social factors that diminish the ability to reach a worthy and progressive ideal.
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Berkman, L. F., Kawachi, I., & Glymour, M. M. (2014). Social epidemiology. Oxford University Press.
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