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Why are so many indigenous Pando people dying? Using observations from Chhattisgarh, India, to conduct structural assessment and identify solutions

open access: yesGlobal Public Health, 2023
Health challenges of communities are often assessed using biomedical or individual risk-based frameworks which are often inadequate for understanding their full extent. We use observations from the global South to demonstrate the usefulness of structural
Yogeshwar Kalkonde   +5 more
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Rethinking global health from south and north: A social medicine approach to global health education

open access: yesGlobal Public Health, 2023
This study examines efforts to integrate social medicine into global health education and its potential to guide the new practice of structural competency.
Elyse Katz   +4 more
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An Evaluation of a Structural Competency Training for School Nurses [PDF]

open access: yes, 2023
The aim of this quality improvement project was to use structural competency as a tool to highlight the broad social, political, and economic structures that influence health and subsequent inequities and disparities.
Torres, Rachel J.
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Learning to walk the walk: Incorporating praxis for decolonization in global health education

open access: yesGlobal Public Health, 2023
Colonial history has deeply influenced the structures that govern global health. Though many curricula promote equity, few focus on developing competency in understanding and dismantling colonialism, and the structural barriers to global health equity ...
Shela Sridhar   +6 more
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Contributions from popular education in health to structural competency training: An experience from Chile

open access: yesGlobal Public Health, 2023
Structural competency is used to train health professionals on how social, political, and economic dynamics create conditions that negatively impact a population’s health.
Karen Anderson   +4 more
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Like ticking time bombs. Improvising structural competency to ‘Defuse’ the exploding of violence against emergency care workers in Italy

open access: yesGlobal Public Health, 2023
While violence against health care workers is being progressively recognised as a serious problem in the healthcare industry, it remains an under-studied area of enquiry in global public health.
Mirko Pasquini
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Structural competency in New Mexico: Moving outside of medical education

open access: yesGlobal Public Health, 2023
In 2019, the Doña Ana Wellness Institute (DAWI), Doña Ana County, New Mexico’s health council, sponsored two trainings in structural competency by the Structural Competency Working Group.
Mary Alice Scott   +5 more
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Rethinking structural competency: Continuing education in mental health and practices of territorialisation in Brazil

open access: yesGlobal Public Health, 2023
Brazilian mental health focuses on the social determination model within mental health policies and interventions to address mental and social suffering as resulting from social exclusion and structural violence.
Francisco Ortega   +1 more
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Medical neutrality and structural competency in conflict zones: Israeli healthcare professionals’ reaction to political violence

open access: yesGlobal Public Health, 2023
This article explores the meaning, manifestations, and ramifications of medical neutrality in conflict zones. We analyse how Israeli healthcare institutions and leaders responded to the escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in May 2021 and how ...
Zvika Orr, Mark D. Fleming
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The social determination of health and the transformation of rights and ethics: A meta-critical methodology for responsible and reparative science

open access: yesGlobal Public Health, 2023
The hyper-neoliberal era has seen the collapse of the ethos of life and the formation of a civilisation of extreme greed. In this global context, the pre-eminence of a technologically endowed but epistemologically and ethically misguided form of science ...
Jaime Breilh
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