“…Building on the definition of syndemic in which two or more diseases mutually and synergistically interact with each other (Singer 2009), Rock (2013) has recently proposed a syndemic approach to disease prevention, in which disease prevention and the examination of it entails a solutions-focused examination of causal pathways relevant to population health. Based on the work of Rock (2013), Singer (2009), and the data presented here, I propose a syndemic approach to resilience in which protective factors mutually and synergistically act together and lead to successful outcomes in spite of adversity.…”