Structural Competency: Curriculum for Medical Students, Residents, and Interprofessional Teams on the Structural Factors That Produce Health Disparities [PDF]
MedEdPORTAL, 2020 Introduction Research on disparities in health and health care has demonstrated that social, economic, and political factors are key drivers of poor health outcomes.
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Barriers to and solutions for representative inclusion across the lifespan and in life course research: The need for structural competency highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic [PDF]
Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 2023 Exclusion of special populations (older adults; pregnant women, children, and adolescents; individuals of lower socioeconomic status and/or who live in rural communities; people from racial and ethnic minority groups; individuals from sexual or gender ...
Madison N. LeCroy +20 more
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A Structural Competency Framework for Emergency Medicine Research: Results from a Scoping Review and Consensus Conference [PDF]
Western Journal of Emergency Medicine, 2022 Introduction: The application of structural competency and structural vulnerability to emergency medicine (EM) research has not been previously described despite EM researchers routinely engaging structurally vulnerable populations.
Amy Zeidan +12 more
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From Apathy to Structural Competency and the Right to Health: An Institutional Ethnography of a Maternal and Child Wellness Center [PDF]
Health and Human Rights, 2023 Given the persistence of health inequities in the United States, scholars and health professionals alike have turned to the social determinants of health (SDH) framework to understand the overlapping factors that produce and shape these inequities ...
Margaret Mary Downey +1 more
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A Structural Competency Curriculum for Primary Care Providers to Address the Opioid Use Disorder, HIV, and Hepatitis C Syndemic [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2020 The interrelated epidemics of opioid use disorder (OUD) and HIV and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection have been identified as one of the most pressing syndemics facing the United States today.
Ann D. Bagchi
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Shifting the gaze of the physician from the body to the body in a place: A qualitative analysis of a community-based photovoice approach to teaching place-health concepts to medical students. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 Medical practitioners, trained to isolate health within and upon the body of the individual, are now challenged to negotiate research and population health theories that link health status to geographic location as evidence suggests a connection between ...
Lauri Andress, Matthew P Purtill
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Structural Competency: A Faculty Development Workshop Series for Anti-racism in Medical Education [PDF]
MedEdPORTALIntroduction In response to accreditation bodies requiring health disparities curricula, medical educators are tasked with incorporating structural competency, the understanding of how social and structural barriers like structural racism impact health ...
Shani R. Scott +3 more
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Teacher competency and work engagement among secondary school physical education teachers: the multiple mediating roles of occupational stress, emotional exhaustion, and professional achievement [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychiatryObjectiveThis study examined the relationships between teacher competency, occupational stress, emotional exhaustion, sense of professional achievement, and work engagement among secondary school physical education teachers.
Weisong Chen +4 more
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Why Race and Ethnicity Are Not Like Other Risk Factors
Philosophy of Medicine, 2021 Since early in the Covid-19 pandemic, there have been wide disparities observed between different US racial groups’ rates of Covid-19 infections and deaths.
Sean A. Valles
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Beyond the classroom: The development of collective structural competency in pro-migrant activism
Global Public Health, 2023 Structural competency proposals have been developed as part of an effort to infuse clinical training with a structural focus. Framed in the context of medical education, the discussion on structural competency naturally emphasises the development of such
Carlos Piñones-Rivera +4 more
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