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- Title
Structural Violence and Clinical Medicine.
- Authors
Farmer, Paul E.; Nizeye, Bruce; Stulac, Sara; Keshavjee, Salmaan
- Abstract
The article presents the author's comments on the large-scale social forces that influence the distribution of diseases in a society and access to medical care. The author has termed the social arrangements that put individuals and populations to harm as structural violence. According to the author, the distribution and outcome of chronic infectious diseases are closely linked to social arrangements.
- Subjects
SOCIAL forces; PUBLIC health; MEDICAL care; SOCIAL structure
- Publication
PLoS Medicine, 2006, Vol 3, Issue 10, p1686
- ISSN
1549-1277
- Publication type
Editorial
- DOI
10.1371/journal.pmed.0030449