Structural Competency: Curriculum for Medical Students, Residents, and Interprofessional Teams on the Structural Factors That Produce Health Disparities

• Main Authors: Joshua Neff (Author), Seth M. Holmes (Author), Kelly R. Knight (Author), Shirley Strong (Author), Ariana Thompson-Lastad (Author), Cara McGuinness (Author), Laura Duncan (Author), Nimish Saxena (Author), Michael J. Harvey (Author), Alice Langford (Author), Katiana L. Carey-Simms (Author), Sara N. Minahan (Author), Shannon Satterwhite (Author), Caitlin Ruppel (Author), Sonia Lee (Author), Lillian Walkover (Author), Jorge De Avila (Author), Brett Lewis (Author), Jenifer Matthews (Author), Nicholas Nelson (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Association of American Medical Colleges, 2020-03-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Introduction Research on disparities in health and health care has demonstrated that social, economic, and political factors are key drivers of poor health outcomes. Yet the role of such structural forces on health and health care has been incorporated unevenly into medical training. The framework o...