SOSC 1801 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Post-Exposure Prophylaxis, Pneumocystis Pneumonia, Opportunistic Infection

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1801
• Professor: Denielle Elliott

Document Summary

The emerging phenomenon of acquired resistance to antibiotics- including antibacterial, antivirals and antiphrastic agents - is inevitably a biosocial process. What is structural violence? cultural-that stop individuals, groups and societies from reaching full potential: termed coined by john galtung , describes social structures, economic, political, legal, religious and regular experience. Desperate access to resources, political power, education, healthcare, and legal standing are examples. Closely linked to social injustice and social machinery of oppression: simple definition of structural violence- social arrangements hat put individuals and population in harms way. Arrangements are structural because they are embedded in the political and economic organizations of our social world. Yet risk has never been determined solely by individual behavior: susceptibility to infection and poor outcomes is intensified by social factors such as poverty, gender inequality, and racism. water and housing quality. Delivering aids care equitably in the united states.