Question

Explain how Holmes' concept of violence and suffering expand the definition of violence and connect to social determinants of health.

Answer 1

Holmes view about violence and suffering is from the perspective of a migrant, and especially a migrant laborer.

He tries to personalize and as a consequence operationalize the atrocities that the social structures end up inflicting on the masses that creates an environment of anger and pain that is not only confined to ones physical form, but transpires to the mental and existential realm as well.

The eufunctions that the societal structures are meant to adhere and cater to are absent.

This socio economic imbalance is bound to have an outlet that we experience in the form of violence, and personal suffering.

Social determinant of health are those that deal with the social as well as economical factors, which have an inadvertent affect on the mental as well as physical health of individuals owing to burgeoning inequity - this is what Holmes tries to address while reassessing the concept of violence and suffering.