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An investigation of structural violence in the lived experience of food insecurity.
- Source :
- Critical Public Health; Apr2023, Vol. 33 Issue 2, p185-196, 12p, 1 Chart
- Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- In Australia, like many high-income countries, food insecurity is associated with increased risks of chronic diseases, sub-optimal development outcomes in children, and mental health conditions including depression and anxiety. Food insecure households employ a range of strategies, including the use of food charity, to help alleviate hunger and meet cost of living pressures. The aim of this paper is to investigate the lived experience of food insecurity for welfare-dependent households, and to examine these experiences within a structural violence framework. Structural violence investigations seek to understand the distal causal factors that can help explain poor health patterns and inequities. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with customers (n = 78) of food pantries, soup kitchens, and community development programs (June 2018 to January 2019) in the state of Victoria, Australia. Thematic analysis established evidence of controlling, demeaning and depriving practices in the interactions between the participants and the services and staff at national welfare providers and food charities. The same providers and charities nominally set up to address the exact situations in which participants found themselves. The findings of this study suggest that food and social services are an on-the-ground setting through which structural violence is enacted and experienced. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- DIVERSITY & inclusion policies
CHARITY
TORRES Strait Islanders
FOOD relief
FOOD security
RESEARCH methodology
VIOLENCE
INTERVIEWING
COMMUNITY health services
EXPERIENCE
POVERTY areas
QUALITATIVE research
SOCIOECONOMIC factors
GOVERNMENT policy
REFUGEES
NATURAL disasters
DESCRIPTIVE statistics
PUBLIC welfare
THEMATIC analysis
HOMELESSNESS
VICTIMS
SOCIODEMOGRAPHIC factors
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09581596
- Volume :
- 33
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Critical Public Health
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 162670759
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2021.2019680