What is it about?
Provides a social analysis of Chronic Kidney Disease of unknown etiology (CKDu). Explains that CKDu is historically driven and rooted in agricultural policy. Shows that CKDu is linked to working conditions of agricultural laborers. Uses geospatial, case-control, and ethnographic analyses to CKDu. Shows that structural violence explains the social origins of CKDu.
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Why is it important?
The present study, informed by structural violence theory, utilized a mixed-method approach that analyzed primary and secondary data for Medawachchiya District Secretariat Division in Anuradhapura District for 2010 and 2015 and examined CKDu as a manifestation of social inequality and exclusion and the creation of a marginalized group of agricultural laborers.
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This is the first publication that looked into the social history of kidney disease in Sri Lanka.
Professor M.W. Amarasiri de Silva
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This page is a summary of: Structural violence and chronic kidney disease of unknown etiology in Sri Lanka, Social Science & Medicine, April 2017, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.02.016.
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