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SUBMITTER: Hamed S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7410275 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hamed Sarah S Thapar-Björkert Suruchi S Bradby Hannah H Ahlberg Beth Maina BM
Qualitative health research 20200616 11
Research shows how racism can negatively affect access to health care and treatment. However, limited theoretical research exists on conceptualizing racism in health care. In this article, we use structural violence as a theoretical tool to understand how racism as an institutionalized social structure is enacted in subtle ways and how the "violence" built into forms of social organization is rendered invisible through repetition and routinization. We draw on interviews with health care users fr ...[more]