Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine

By P. Farmer, Bruce Nizeye, Sara N Stulac, S. Keshavjee. PLoS Medicine, 2006

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Structural violence refers to the social structures that put people in harm's way. Farmer and colleagues describe the impact of social violence upon people living with HIV in the US and Rwanda.

Subfields: General Health Professions, Pharmacy

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Citations in the corpus

• Structural competency: Theorizing a new medical engagement with stigma and inequality (2014, background): “Or, they might deploy Sen (1999), Farmer et al. (2006), or Hatzenbuehler (in this issue) to discuss the relationships among economies, biases, and attitudes that Mrs. Jones ’ s illness illustrates.”
• Modified social ecological model: a tool to guide the assessment of the risks and risk contexts of HIV epidemics (2013, background): “While there is no singular definition, structural drivers can be conceptualized as those social, economic, organizational, and political power and domination factors which contribute to social inequities [2-4].”