Does Structural Violence by Institutions Enable Revictimization and Lead to Poorer Health Outcomes?-A Public Health Viewpoint.
| Autor: | Macassa G; Department of Public Health and Sports Science, Faculty of Occupational and Health Sciences, University of Gävle, Kungsbacksvägen 47, 80176 Gävle, Sweden.; EPIUnit-Instituto de Saude Publica, Universidade do Porto, Rua das Taipas 135, 4050-600 Porto, Portugal.; Laboratório para a Investigação Integrativa e Translacional em Saúde Populacional (ITR), Rua das Taipas, nº135, 4050-600 Porto, Portugal.; Department of Public Health, School of Health Sciences, University of Skövde, 541 28 Skövde, Sweden. |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Zdroj: | Annals of global health [Ann Glob Health] 2023 Sep 15; Vol. 89 (1), pp. 58. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 Sep 15 (Print Publication: 2023). |
| DOI: | 10.5334/aogh.4137 |
| Abstrakt: | 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 even poorer health outcomes (including psychological ill health). This viewpoint aims to discuss this issue using examples from empirical studies to elucidate how structural violence (perpetrated through institutions) contributes to revictimization among people who are already suffering direct violence. Public health professionals (and researchers) need to make efforts to theorize and measure structural violence to aid efforts toward the study of how it intersects with interpersonal violence to influence health outcomes. This will ultimately contribute to better prevention and intervention efforts to curb interpersonal violence and improve population health and well-being. In addition, there is a need to include structural violence in the academic curriculum when training future generations of public health professionals. Increased education on structural violence will bring about an awareness of the grave consequences of the potential additional harm that institutions could inflict on the lives of people they should be protecting or care for. Competing Interests: The author has no competing interests to declare. (Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s).) |
| Databáze: | MEDLINE |
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