Patient Journey Structure Inequalities in Health Flashcards
What is meant by social structures?
The policies, economic systems and other institutions (judicial system, schools, work systems, housing, transport etc) that have produced and maintain modern social ineqaulities as well as health disparities often along the lines of social categories such as race, class, gender and sexuality.
What is meant by structural violence?
Descries social arrangements that put individuals and populations in harm way.
The arrangements are based on political and economic organisation of our social world, they are violent because they cause injury to people.
What is structural vulnerability>
The risk that an individual experiences as a result of structural violence - including their location in multiple socioeconomic hierarchies. Structural vulnerability is not caused by nor repaired by the individual agency or behaviours.
What is meant by naturalising inequality?
When inequality and structural violence are justified by or unacknowledged due to nonstructural explanations for structurally mediated harms/inequalties - for example suggest reason is due to individual behaviour, culture etc. Suggesting it is natural for them to do that.
