The authors propose reinvigorating and extending the traditional social history beyond its
narrow range of risk behaviors to enable clinicians to address negative health outcomes …

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 …

Health inequities stem from systematic, pervasive social and structural forces. These forces
marginalize populations and create the circumstances that disadvantage these groups, as …

Scientific advances in health care have been disproportionately distributed across social
strata. Disease burden is also disproportionately distributed, with marginalized groups …

Problem Structural competency is a framework for conceptualizing and addressing health-
related social justice issues that emphasizes diagnostic recognition of economic and …

Structural competency provides a language and theoretical framework to promote
institutional-level interventions by clinical practitioners working with community …

The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has exposed the consequences of
inequality in the US. Even though all US residents are likely equally susceptible to infection …

This book documents the ways that clinical practitioners and trainees have used the
“structural competency” framework to reduce inequalities in health. The essays describe on …

This paper describes a shift in medical education away from pedagogic approaches to
stigma and inequalities that emphasize cross-cultural understandings of individual patients …

This symposium of the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry illustrates structural competency: how
clinical practitioners can intervene on social and institutional determinants of health. It will …