Structural violence and clinical medicine

PLoS Med. 2006 Oct;3(10):e449. doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030449.

Abstract

Structural violence refers to the social structures that put people in harm's way. Farmer and colleagues describe the impact of social violence upon people living with HIV in the US and Rwanda.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / prevention & control
  • Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome / therapy
  • Baltimore
  • Child Welfare
  • Child, Preschool
  • Clinical Medicine*
  • Ethics, Institutional*
  • Haiti
  • Health Services Accessibility
  • Humans
  • Infant
  • Public Health
  • Rwanda
  • Socioeconomic Factors
  • Violence*