What are health disparities and how are they produced through relations of power? Using a specific example, how can we think about health disparities as forms of structural violence?

What are health disparities and how are they produced through relations of power? Using a specific example, how can we think about health disparities as forms of structural violence? . Required reading:. Olivia Carter-Pokras, and Claudia Baquet. 2002. “What is a ‘health disparity’”? Public Health Reports 117:426-434.. Lauren Berlant. 2010. “Risky Bigness: On Obesity, Eating, and the Ambiguity of ‘Health.’” In Jonathan M. Metzl and Anna Kirkland (eds), Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality. New York: New York University Press, pg. 26-39.. Recommended reading. Mary-Jo DelVecchio et al. 2002. “The Culture of Medicine and Racial, Ethnic and Class Disparities in Healthcare.” In Smedley BD, Stith AY, Nelson AR, eds.. Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care. Institute of Medicine (US) Committee on Understanding and Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care. Washington (DC): National Academies Press, 549-625.. Julie Guthman (2009) ‘Neoliberalism and the Constitution of Contemporary Bodies.’ In The Fat Studies Reader, eds. Esther Rothblum and Sondra Soloway, New York and London: New York University Press, pp. 187–196.. April Michelle Herndon (2005) ‘Collateral Damage from Friendly Fire?: Race, Nation, Class and the ‘War Against Obesity.’’ Social Semiotics 15, no. 2: 127-141.. Social Determinants and the Health of Indigenous peoples in Australia—A Human Rights Based Approach. Workshop paper presented by Mr Darren Dick on behalf of Mr Tom Calma, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justidfpce Commissioner. Available at: https://humanrights.gov.au/about/news/speeches/social-determinants-and-health-indigenous-peoples-australia-human-rights-based