Table A1.

Summary of reviewed articles

Citation	Discipline1	Study design2	Main contextual factors analysed3
The syndemics of diabetes and depression in Brazil – An epidemiological analysis [21].	Social medicine	Quant	Living and working conditions Social and community networks Only partially addressed: General social, economic, cultural and environmental conditions
‘Just One Thing after Another’: Recursive Cascades and Chronic Conditions [22].	Anthropology	Qual	Living and working conditions Social and community networks Only partially addressed: Individual lifestyle factors
Association of Social Adversity with Comorbid Diabetes and Depression Symptoms in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos Sociocultural Ancillary Study: A Syndemic Framework [23].	Psychology	Quant	Living and working conditions Social and community networks
When HIV is ordinary and diabetes new: remaking suffering in a South African township [16].	Medical Anthropology & Public Health	Qual	Living and working conditions Social and community networks
Syndemic suffering in Soweto: Violence and inequality at the nexus of health transition in south Africa [15].	Medical Anthropology	Qual	Living and working conditions Social and community networks
Stress, diabetes, and infection: Syndemic suffering at an urban Kenyan hospital [24].	Medical Anthropology & Public health	MM	Living and working conditions Social and community networks
Addressing Syndemic Health Disparities Among Latin Immigrants Using Peer Support [25].	Anthropology	MM	Living and working conditions Social and community networks Individual lifestyle factors.
Transactions in Suffering: Mothers, Daughters, and Chronic Disease Comorbidities in New Delhi, India [26].	Medical Anthropology	Two case studies from a bigger MM study	Social and community networks
Applying Syndemics and Chronicity: Interpretations from Studies of Poverty, Depression, and Diabetes [27].	Medical Anthropology	Two case studies from two original MM studies	Living and working conditions Social and community networks Only partially addressed: Individual lifestyle factors.
The Utility of a Syndemic Framework in Understanding Chronic Disease Management Among HIV-Infected and Type 2 Diabetic Men Who Have Sex with Men [28].	Medicine & Public Health	Quant	Social and community networks Individual lifestyle factors Only partially addressed: Living and working conditions
When Diabetes Confronts HIV: Biological Sub-citizenship at a Public Hospital in Nairobi, Kenya [29].	Medical Anthropology	3 case studies narratives from a bigger MM study	General social, economic, cultural and environmental conditions Also included in the measure and analysis: Living and working conditions Social and community networks
Encountering Work: Intergenerational Informality, Child Labor, and Malnutrition in Urban Ecuador [30].	Anthropology	Qual	Living and working conditions Only partially addressed: General social, economic, cultural and environmental conditions.
Carolina in the Carolines: A Survey of Patterns and Meanings of Smoking on a Micronesian Island [31].	Anthropology	MM	Individual lifestyle factors Mainly, but embedded in a broader analysis including: Living and working conditions Social and community networks

¹Discipline was determined by looking at the (main) professional title of first and second author(s).

²Quantitative (quant), qualitative (qual), mixed-methods (MM).

³Rainbow model layers [19].