Structural Competency in Mental Health and Medicine A Case-Based Approach to Treating the Social Determinants of Health /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Hansen, Helena (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Metzl, Jonathan M. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Psychiatry.; Emergency medicine.; General practice (Medicine).; Public health.; Emergency Medicine.; General Practice / Family Medicine.; Public Health.

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-the-ground ways that clinicians, educators, and activists craft structural interventions to enhance health outcomes...

Table of Contents:

• Structural Competency and Racial Health Disparities: Rethinking Pre-Health Education
• Structural Competence in a Longitudinal Medical School Curriculum in Humanities and Social Sciences
• The Walking Classroom: Social Medicine on the Streets of Baltimore
• "This Ain't No Tool, This Ain't no Kit": Teaching Structural Competency Through An Embodied Pedagogy in The Wake of Narrative Medicine
• Bringing Structural Competency to first-year medical students: a UCSF case study
• Rad Med's Structural Competency Training for Clinicians
• Collaborative Fieldwork on Homelessness, Severe Mental Illness and Incarceration: Cross-Training in Medicine and the Social Sciences
• The NYC Coalition to Dismantle Racism in the Health System: An Action-Oriented Collaboration among the Medical Students, Community-Based Organizations, Public Health Officials, and the Legal Sector in New York City
• Engaging Psychiatry Residents with Communities and with Mental Health Peers
• Beyond Humility: Relational Politics and Lessons from the University of California PRIME - LC program
• Yale Department of Psychiatry Structural Competency Community Initiative (YSCCI)
• Community Health Workers as Accelerators of Community Engagement and Structural Competency in Medical Centers
• Teaching Urbanism for Health
• Partnerships for collective recovery in an immigrant/refugee community following massive trauma
• Urban Housing and Asthma - An Example of the Impact of Medical-Legal Partnership in Keeping Children Healthy
• From Punishment to Public Health: Cross-Sector Policy Innovations in Law Enforcement and Mental Health
• From Policy to Partnership: How Allied Healthcare Workers Advance Structural Competency
• Physicians as Policy Advocates: from the bedside to the state house.