SOSC 1801 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Structural Violence, Social Forces, Condom
26 Sep 2016
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Racism, gender inequality, poverty, political violence and war often determine who becomes sick and who has access to care. There isn"t a lot of social analysis to illnesses and diseases when there are significant environmental components such as: poverty, poor housing, no access to food, no access to clean water. As well as the social forces of: racism, pollution. Structural violence describes social arrangements that put individuals and populations in harms way. it is considered violent because it causes pain, harm or injury to people directly or indirectly. Its hard for physicians to ignore the social aspects when so many people are being diagnosed with hiv/aids. There"s a lot of reasons as to why its considered a social disease . Many don"t have the access to condoms or sex education courses to teach them consequences of not using a condom.
