HLTC05H3 Lecture Notes - Structural Inequality, Drug Resistance, Global Health
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Lecture 12 ethics, human rights, and health (baer et al. 2003c farmer and gastineau 2002 who 2008: 2-25) Social inequalities based on race or ethnicity, gender, religious creed, and - above all - social class are the motor force behind most human rights violations. In other words, violence against individuals is usually embedded in entrenched structural violence. farmer and. It is not inequalities that kill, but those who benefit from the inequalities that kill (navarro 2009: 423) Untreatable or expensive to treat ? (see farmer and gastineau 2002: look at the article. Significant global health challenges; structural violence as a factor. Gender and racial disparity, disease and health. Disparity in drug development (infectious vs. chronic, non-infectious, diseases) Health strategies must include political, economic, social, and cultural interventions that touch on the social (as distinct from the individual) determinants of health. *empowerment of people as a main objective* Health policy focused on the structural determinants of health.
