Health and Place
what is structural violence
preventable harm which is built into a societal structure caused by one's environment.
Citing this East African nation, Farmer points to its post‑genocide investment in primary care and community health workers as an example that strong systems can be built even in very poor countries
What is Rwanda?
Barbara Ehrenreich argues that this group of Americans often pays more for basic goods and services because they lack access to discounts, credit, and stable housing.
poor/low income people
What do the terms Positive Peace and Negative Peace mean?
Negative Peace is the absence of personal violence, and Positive Peace is the absence of Structural Violence
Name one factor that can contribute to structural violence.
Housing, healthcare, labor markets, food systems
from the video, what were the three things Dr. Farmer said were needed to stop Ebola?
Stuff, Staff, and Systems
(bonus points if you can give an example/ explain what this means)
Ehrenreich argues that this financial burden shows how structural violence makes everyday survival more costly for poor people.
higher cost of basic necessities.
What are the four types of violence?
Direct violence, structural violence, cultural violence, and indirect violence.
What was the example of structural violence in the Health and Place reading
lower access to healthy food and produce, therefore negatively impacting the pregnant women in the area.
(the structure being the food stores and the pregnant women being those who experience harm.)
In the Ebola outbreak, Paul Farmer argues that the lack of this (not cultural practices) allowed a treatable disease to become deadly in West Africa.
What is a strong, well-funded health care system?
Ehrenreich critiques political rhetoric that ignores structural violence by focusing blame on this.
What is individual responsibility or personal failure?
Together, the readings argue that health disparities are produced by this, not by individual moral failure.
What are structural inequalities?
What is the specific fetal growth problem, defined as birth weight below the 10th percentile for gestational age among full-term infants
What is intrauterine growth restriction (IUGR)
what is supportive care, give an example
treating someone for what they have specifically/ treating the issue, in the video: if a patient is hypertensive, they receive IVs and blood pressure medication.
These invisible forces—such as poverty, racism, and unequal policy decisions—are examples of structural violence because they cause harm without this.
What is direct physical force?
Violence can be defined as the cause of the difference between these
What is the potential and the actual?