I have to say that I love the article. I think it completely proves how individual health needs to be perceived as a whole in which every aspect of our patients’ live including their socioeconomic status, cultural influence and appropriate access to health services can directly impact their health. I agree that “structural violence perpetuates health disparities”. According to Burtle (n.d), in his article Structural Violence: Inequality and the Harm it Causes, “structural violence refers to systematic ways in which social structures harm or otherwise disadvantage individuals”. In this sense, structural violence represent obstacles or social inequity that put certain groups of individuals such as immigrants, black population and poor people
