Does Structural Violence by Institutions Enable Revictimization and Lead to Poorer Health Outcomes?—A Public Health Viewpoint [PDF]
Annals of Global Health, 2023 Although structural violence is known to interact with and reinforce direct violence in the form of interpersonal violence (e.g., intimate partner violence), little debate takes place in public health on how it can lead to revictimization, leading to ...
Gloria Macassa
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“The pandemic only gave visibility to what is invisible”: a qualitative analysis of structural violence during COVID-19 and impacts on gender-based violence in Brazil [PDF]
BMC Public Health, 2023 Background The COVID-19 pandemic produced alarming rates of disease and mortality globally, yet few nations were as severely impacted as Brazil. The pandemic also exposed and exacerbated persistent forms of structural violence across Brazil, which ...
Luissa Vahedi +7 more
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Racism and Structural Violence: Interconnected Threats to Health Equity [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2022 In 2020, the continuing murder of Black Americans by police officers received widespread media attention and sparked global outrage. Public health responses to these events focused on discrimination by police and structural racism in broader society ...
Mienah Zulfacar Sharif +6 more
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Understanding Structural Violence in Community Violence Intervention (CVI): A Multi-City Qualitative Analysis of Practitioner Perspectives [PDF]
Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and FinancingThe discourse on community violence has expanded over the years, shifting from a focus on interpersonal physical harm to a broader understanding that includes systemic and structural harm.
Asia S. Ivey PhD +3 more
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Skeletal Markers of Physiological Stress as Indicators of Structural Violence: A Comparative Study between the Deceased Migrants of the Mediterranean Sea and the CAL Milano Cemetery Skeletal Collection [PDF]
Biology, 2023 Structural violence is an indirect form of violence that can lead to physiological consequences. Interestingly, these physiological disruptions may affect the skeletons and can therefore provide relevant information on violence and way of life in the ...
Lucie Biehler-Gomez +7 more
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‘Our Darkest Hour’: Women and Structural Violence under Ireland’s 8th Amendment [PDF]
Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics, 2022 This article analyses women’s stories of violence in the context of the 8th Amendment. Our analysis of 773 anonymous women’s narratives from In Her Shoes reveals instances of rape and partner violence, health disparities, forced travel, barriers to care,
Michaela Carroll +3 more
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Domestic Violence in Allende's Violeta
Critical Literary Studies, 2023 Domestic is a term that encompasses intimate partner violence wherever it occurs and in whatever form. Galtung categorizes violence into three types of direct, structural, and cultural violence. The purpose of this article is to analyze Allende's Violeta
Vida Rahiminezhad +1 more
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Horyzonty Polityki, 2022 Research Objective: The article aims to analyse the concept of structural violence to outline its essential theoretical references. The Research Problem and Methods: The main problem raised in the text is the distinction of structural violence against other forms of violence.
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Conflict and Health, 2022 Forced migrant women experience high levels of violence across their journeys and violence can be characterised as having three overarching forms: structural, symbolic, and interpersonal.
Jeanine Hourani +6 more
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