HLTA03H3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Structural Violence, Galling, Social Forces
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Week 6 - structural violence and clinical medicine. Reason behind this: modern medicine focus is on different things (i. e. what is molecular basis of disease) Despite this, biosocial understanding is still important; especially apparent to people serving population living in poverty. Arrangements are structural because they are controlled by political and economic organizations. Clinicians/physicians aren"t trained to understand such issues or alter them. Even so, biosocial understandings are easy to study; tools and methods required to perform biosocial studies to understand structural violence and its impact on disease are readily available: practitioners can study concept if they choose. Dif cult to ignore social factors when dealing with infectious diseases such as. Hiv/aids as they are so tightly linked together. Also important to know that clinicians/practitioners may have a different idea on what makes a disease (e. g. aids) social. Doctors have focused on behaviours/lifestyles of people, and decided that these are prominent factors that place people at risk of hiv infection.
