2020
DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2020.1864751
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Structural competency and global health education

Abstract: The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrates the critical need to reimagine and repair the broken systems of global health. Specifically, the pandemic demonstrates the hollowness of the global health rhetoric of equity, the weaknesses of a health security-driven global health agenda, and the negative health impacts of power differentials not only globally, but also regionally and locally. This article analyses the effects of these inequities and calls on governments, multilateral agencies, universities, and NGOs to enga… Show more

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“…In these contexts, SC curriculum development is particularly essential. 15,17 The mode of teaching in these programs is often hands-on and facilitated by visiting faculty and via teleconferencing. 18 Global emergency medicine (GEM) fellowships have been developed to provide advanced training in international skills and systems development to residency-trained emergency physicians.…”
Section: Emergency Medicine (Em) Is Now a Global Specialty With Thementioning
confidence: 99%
“…In these contexts, SC curriculum development is particularly essential. 15,17 The mode of teaching in these programs is often hands-on and facilitated by visiting faculty and via teleconferencing. 18 Global emergency medicine (GEM) fellowships have been developed to provide advanced training in international skills and systems development to residency-trained emergency physicians.…”
Section: Emergency Medicine (Em) Is Now a Global Specialty With Thementioning
confidence: 99%
“…In recent years, there has been a growing recognition of the structural determinants of health [ 19 21 ]. This concept relates to a variety of upstream, macro-level factors that produce and maintain health inequities, often in relation to race, ethnicity, religion, religiosity, class, citizenship status, language, geography, gender, and age.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Structural competency allows healthcare professionals to understand the process by which structurally-generated health inequalities are perceived as natural and deserved rather than unjust and imposed, and are consequently reproduced and perpetuated [ 19 , 53 ]. This understanding "opens up the possibility for challenging ideologies of inequality that justify a pathogenic status quo" [ 19 ].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Health education gives opportunities to learn about many health subjects. Health education techniques are adapted to the demographics of the people who will benefit from them [6]. In an appropriate environment, health education gives information to target audiences on specific health subjects, including the health advantages and hazards they face, as well as tools to develop capacity and promote behavior change.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%