PUBHLTH 160 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Sustainable Development Goals, Bhavsar, Structural Violence
23 Jan 2019
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Defining health by addressing individual, social, and environmental determinants; bircher and kuruvilla: In this article, johannes bircher and shyama kuruvilla discuss health by different components like demand of life, biological and personally acquired potentials, and social and environmental determinants. The article shows results on how the meikirch model if adapted with the current healthcare and public could really help individuals. Structural violence is one way of describing social arrangements marked by racism and other social inequalities. This article discusses how the epidemic disease and dismal life expectancies are tightly to social conditions. Diseases such as aids, asthma, become a disease of the poor or a certain race due to their social arrangements rather than genetic causes. These races and communities have minimum access to resources, political power, education and health care as well as unequal legal standing. The poor have lack of resources and healthcare resulting in disease, but our system is designed to fend for ourselves.
