Working Group A - Week 8: Ill-health and suffering - a manifestation of structural violence? by Rebecca Preen https://padlet.com/beccapreen/Week8WorkingGroupA Group Members: Nicholas, Aditi, Rhys, Taiki, Rebecca en-us 2020-11-18 20:20:43 UTC 2025-12-29 19:26:04 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/863441119/a4a1d27c00d86b23980a769086bd6042/structural_violence_boy_drinking_dirty_water.jpg Activity 1: Group Reading Reflections beccapreen https://padlet.com/beccapreen/Week8WorkingGroupA/wish/938738597 *questions to consider whilst reflecting - 
a) What does the concept of 'structural violence' try to capture?
b) What is the perspective(s) that this concept encourages us to take?
c) How does it differ from the concept of 'social determinants of health?
d) How can structures be violent?

]]> 2020-11-18 20:24:03 UTC https://padlet.com/beccapreen/Week8WorkingGroupA/wish/938738597 Activity 2: Find additional material that illustrates how ill-health and suffering can be viewed as an embodiment of structural violence beccapreen https://padlet.com/beccapreen/Week8WorkingGroupA/wish/938741297  * Please include a brief comment with your post that explains:
- why you have chosen this material 
-how it relates to the issues discussed in the lectures and/or readings
- please also comment on the material and reflections posted by other members of your Grou

]]> 2020-11-18 20:24:46 UTC https://padlet.com/beccapreen/Week8WorkingGroupA/wish/938741297 Essential Reading beccapreen https://padlet.com/beccapreen/Week8WorkingGroupA/wish/938747291 R1: Fernando De Maio; David Ansell 10/2018 - “As Natural as the Air Around Us”: On the Origin and Development of the Concept of Structural Violence in Health Research in International Journal of Health Services

R2: Paul Farmer 2003 - Chapter 1  'On Suffering and Structural Violence: Social and Economic Rights in the Global Era', pp. 29-50 - Pathologies of power: health, human rights, and the new war on the poor

R3: A. Wilkinson; M. Leach 01/01/2015 - Briefing: Ebola-myths, realities, and structural violence in African Affairs ]]> 2020-11-18 20:26:18 UTC https://padlet.com/beccapreen/Week8WorkingGroupA/wish/938747291 Rebecca - Activity 1 beccapreen https://padlet.com/beccapreen/Week8WorkingGroupA/wish/938769553 R2: Right before Acephie's story - "What these victims, past and present, share are not personal or psychological attributes. They do not share culture or language or a certain race. What they share, rather, is the experience of occupying the bottom rung of the social ladder in in-egalitarian societies." p31

Paul Farmer emphasises that "this is not simply the story of Acephie and her daughter ... nor this is simply the story of those infected with HIV" it's about the longstanding ramifications and trauma as well as the emblematic suffering of the structural violence that is causing the tragic and premature deaths

c) Structural Violence vs Social Determinants of Health
Its potential lies in the focus it gives to the deep structural roots of health inequities; in contrast to the more passive term “social determinants of health,” structural violence explicitly identifies social, economic, and political systems as the causes of poor health.

]]> 2020-11-18 20:31:45 UTC https://padlet.com/beccapreen/Week8WorkingGroupA/wish/938769553 Structural Violence, Life Stressors and Maternal and Child Health at the Thai-Myanmar Border beccapreen https://padlet.com/beccapreen/Week8WorkingGroupA/wish/938774295 Koning, Stephanie M.The University of Wisconsin - Madison, ProQuest Dissertations Publishing, 2018. 10830487.

Topics: Structural violence, Women's health, migrant health, child health

Findings: The evidence shows that more traumatic and disruptive pre-displacement stressors (forced evacuation, acute deprivation, and military oppression) indeed carry lasting health effects relative to other migrants. It is further found that there is a strong association between high-threat environments and select health outcomes across all migrant groups surveyed.

Why have I chosen this material:

How does it relate to the issues discussed in the lectures and/or readings:

Poignant Poem on page 1 and quote from Paul Farmer
]]> 2020-11-18 20:33:01 UTC https://padlet.com/beccapreen/Week8WorkingGroupA/wish/938774295 Aditi - Activity 2 beccapreen https://padlet.com/beccapreen/Week8WorkingGroupA/wish/938775273 2020-11-18 20:33:18 UTC https://padlet.com/beccapreen/Week8WorkingGroupA/wish/938775273 beccapreen https://padlet.com/beccapreen/Week8WorkingGroupA/wish/940381367 R2: Page 36]]> 2020-11-19 08:39:27 UTC https://padlet.com/beccapreen/Week8WorkingGroupA/wish/940381367 R2 d) how can structures be violent? beccapreen https://padlet.com/beccapreen/Week8WorkingGroupA/wish/940389747 Structural violence refers to a form of violence wherein social structures or social institutions harm people by preventing them from meeting their basic needs. Although less visible, I argue that it is probably by far the most lethal form of violence, through causing excess deaths — deaths that would not occur in more equal societies.]]> 2020-11-19 08:42:32 UTC https://padlet.com/beccapreen/Week8WorkingGroupA/wish/940389747 beccapreen https://padlet.com/beccapreen/Week8WorkingGroupA/wish/940417773 R2: In Haiti, AIDS and political violence are two leading causes of death amongst adults - the afflictions are not the result of accident or a force majeure (Act of god); they are the consequence, direct or indirect of human agency]]> 2020-11-19 08:52:51 UTC https://padlet.com/beccapreen/Week8WorkingGroupA/wish/940417773 beccapreen https://padlet.com/beccapreen/Week8WorkingGroupA/wish/940426947 R2: Anonymity and suffering of the individuals, it's important to tell these stories - people dissociate from it because it's far away and they can't fathom the extend of the suffering - Paul Farmer Sheds a sobering light on that (pg 40-41)]]> 2020-11-19 08:56:21 UTC https://padlet.com/beccapreen/Week8WorkingGroupA/wish/940426947 Further reading - Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine beccapreen https://padlet.com/beccapreen/Week8WorkingGroupA/wish/940589038 It was concluded that structural violence remains a high-ranking cause of premature death and disability

(Paul E Farmer,* Bruce Nizeye, Sara Stulac, and Salmaan Keshavjee)]]> 2020-11-19 09:43:25 UTC https://padlet.com/beccapreen/Week8WorkingGroupA/wish/940589038