Nursing 4440A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Structural Violence, Health Equity, Standard Ten

• School: Western University
• Department: Nursing
• Course: Nursing 4440A/B
• Professor: Marry-anne Davies

Document Summary

Structural violence: as opposed to interpersonal violence, violence from structures in place in society, structure of society, macro level, meso level. 2: health system and policy, discourses, systems, policies, histories, violence the use of force or power to do harm. How is race affected by education: complex problems- dynamic problem, not linear, this model helps us bring together complexities in order for us to understand. Global multidimensional poverty index (mpi: understand poverty at a different level, look at it in holistic way, 3 dimensions: health, education, International level of acute poverty living standard: ten indicators under the 3 dimensions, health- nutrition and child mortality, education- years of schooling and school attendance. 3: living standard- cooking fuel, sanitation, water, electricity, floor, and assets. Effects of socio-economic, lifestyle and health care access factors: differences between aboriginal people and non-aboriginal people, looking at health status and self-reported feelings of health.