Structural competency in New Mexico: Moving outside of medical education

Autor: Mary Alice Scott, John Andazola, Tracy Smith, Alex Castillo Smith, Iván de la Rosa, Jamie Michael
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Global Public Health, Vol 18, Iss 1 (2023)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1744-1692
1744-1706
17441692
DOI: 10.1080/17441692.2023.2176003
Popis: In 2019, the Doña Ana Wellness Institute (DAWI), Doña Ana County, New Mexico’s health council, sponsored two trainings in structural competency by the Structural Competency Working Group. One focused on health care professionals and learners; the other focused on government, non-profit organisations, and elected officials. DAWI and New Mexico Human Services Department (HSD) representatives attended the trainings and identified the structural competency model as useful for the health equity work both groups were already engaging. These trainings provided the foundation for DAWI and HSD to develop additional trainings, programmes, and curricula founded on structural competency and focused on supporting health equity work. This article describes how DAWI and HSD used the structural competency framework to deepen our work, including how we have expanded the concept beyond its original orientation to support strategic planning, improve communication, and build structurally competent communities. We illustrate how the framework strengthened our existing community and state work and how we adapted the model to better fit our work. Adaptations included changes in language, the use of the lived experiences of organisation members as a foundation for structural competency education, and a recognition that policy work happens at multiple levels and in multiple ways for organisations.
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