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and treatment of mental illnesses.

Office for Disparities Research and Workforce Diversity Webinar Series: Innovations in Social Determinants of Health: Applying the Structural Competency Framework to Mental Health Care and Mental Health Care Research

Date

June 27, 2022

Location

Virtual

Overview

This webinar provided an overview of the structural competency framework. It discussed recent literature applying the framework in mental health care and reflection on how the framework might extend to mental health care research.

Structural competency is a new educational framework for training health professionals to recognize and respond to disease and its unequal distribution as the outcome of social structures, such as laws, policies, institutions, and systems.

Recording

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About the Office for Disparities Research and Workforce Diversity Webinar Series

The Office for Disparities Research and Workforce Diversity Webinar Series is designed for investigators conducting or interested in conducting research on mental health disparities, women’s mental health, minority mental health, and rural mental health.

Sponsored by

The Office for Disparities Research and Workforce Diversity