Future doctors may no longer be required to learn in medical school about how social and economic factors affect health.

For decades, American medicine addressed some of its most persistent problems -- racial, geographic, and economic inequities in health outcomes, unequal treatment, mistrust -- by focusing on the ...

Figure 1 depicts the ways in which implicit bias (including stereotypes) that leads to false assumptions about an individual patient, combined with inattention to systemic and structural factors ...

The medical education community is pushing back against a proposal by the nation’s primary accreditor of medical schools to backtrack on explicit requirements to teach structural competency—or how ...

Two advocates for public health want healthcare workers trained to be "structurally competent" in basic economics, urban infrastructure, and other societal factors that can negatively impact patients' ...