Policies of uncertainty-those intended to create systematic insecurity by constantly changing the terms of daily life and targeting what matters most to people-are exemplified in which example?

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Farmer (1996) introduced to the health disparities literature the concept of "structural violence," which recognizes the harm and suffering inherent in health disparities that are both caused and obscured by inequality. Grace et al. (2018) reported on the "violence of uncertainty" in which violence is inflicted on these groups, through "systematic personal, social, and institutional instability that exacerbates inequality and injects fear into the most basic of daily interactions" (p. 904). Grace et al. (2018) report that these policies harm people's mental and physical health. They state that "taken together, the two crises create a vicious cycle that plays out partly in the health care system; policies of uncertainty enact the violence of uncertainty" (p. 379). They further state that violence of uncertainty is perpetuated by policies of uncertainty that are intended to create systematic insecurity by constantly changing the terms of daily life and targeting what matters most to people. Policies to separate immigrant children from their parents, for instance, or end the reunification of refugee families are recent examples of the process of systematic insecurity. This violence, along with the stress experienced by these populations as a result of posttraumatic stress, depression, and substance use, further exacerbates their health status and negatively affects participation in everyday, culturally sanctioned daily occupations.

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