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Come an hear Helena Hansen talk about her spellbinding work on structural competency in medical settings to reduce the socio-economic drivers of health inequalities. Structural competency serves to problematise unexamined assumptions, attitudes and biases underlying the widely used concept of cultural competency. Best wishesAna

The Centre for Health Inequalities Research at Lancaster University is pleased to invite you to a seminar on

 

Structural Competency:

New Medicine for the Inequalities that are Making Us Sick

Prof. Helena Hansen, New York University

 

Wednesday 29th May 2019, 16:30-18:30
LEC 1 Biology Lecture Theatre
 

Abstract

U.S. medical schools and clinical practitioners are belatedly recognizing the importance of social determinants of health and the structural drivers of patient outcomes. Yet, the question of how clinical practitioners can act to improve their patients' health on levels above the individual patient visit  - through collaborations with community organizations, non-health sectors such as law enforcement, housing and schools, as well as with policy makers, is not trivial.  This talk describes a movement in the U.S. to identify approaches to structural intervention among clinicians who can bring their symbolic capital to bear in identifying neighbourhood, institutional, and policy level health interventions through collaboration with community members and across specialties.

 

 

Helena Hansen

Helena Hansen, MD, Ph.D., is Associate Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Psychiatry at NYU. She has published widely in clinical and social science journals ranging from JAMA andNEJM to Social Science and Medicine and Medical Anthropology, on faith healing of addiction in Puerto Rico, psychiatric disability under welfare reform, opioids and race, ethnic marketing of pharmaceuticals, and structural competency. Her first book, Addicted to Christ: Remaking Men in Puerto Rican Pentecostal Drug Ministries was published by University of California Press in 2018, and her second book,Structural Competency in Medicine and Mental Health: A Case-Based Approach to Treating the Social Determinants of Health, with co-editor Jonathan Metzl, was published by Springer Press in 2019. She has received major funding from NIDA, the Mellon Foundation, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

 

The Research Seminars ‘Intersectional Innovations in Applied Health Research’ 

are funded by the Division of Health Research

 

 


  

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