This book documents the ways that clinical practitioners and trainees have used the "structural competency" framework to reduce inequalities in health.  The essays describe on-the-ground ways that clinicians, educators, and activists craft structural interventions to enhance health outcomes, student learning, and community organizing around issues of social justice in health and healthcare. Each chapter of the book begins with a case study that illuminates a competency in reorienting clinical and public health practice toward community, institutional and policy level intervention based on alliances with social agencies, community organizations and policy makers.  Written by authors who are trained in both clinical and social sciences, the chapters cover pedagogy in classrooms and clinics, community collaboration, innovative health promotion approaches in non-health sectors and in public policies, offering a view of effective care as structural intervention and a road maptoward its implementation.

Structural Competency in Mental Health and Medicine is a cutting-edge resource for psychiatrists, primary care physicians, addiction medicine specialists, emergency medicine specialists, nurses, social workers, public health practitioners, and other clinicians working toward equality in health.

Structural Competency and Racial Health Disparities: Rethinking Pre-Health Education

Structural Competence in a Longitudinal Medical School Curriculum in Humanities and Social Sciences
The Walking Classroom: Social Medicine on the Streets of Baltimore
"This Ain't No Tool, This Ain't no Kit": Teaching Structural Competency Through An Embodied Pedagogy in The Wake of Narrative Medicine
Bringing Structural Competency to first-year medical students: a UCSF case study
Rad Med's Structural Competency Training for Clinicians
Collaborative Fieldwork on Homelessness, Severe Mental Illness and Incarceration: Cross-Training in Medicine and the Social Sciences
The NYC Coalition to Dismantle Racism in the Health System: An Action-Oriented Collaboration among the Medical Students, Community-Based Organizations, Public Health Officials, and the Legal Sector in New York City
Engaging Psychiatry Residents with Communities and with Mental Health Peers
Beyond Humility: Relational Politics and Lessons from the University of California PRIME - LC program
Yale Department of Psychiatry Structural Competency Community Initiative (YSCCI)
Community Health Workers as Accelerators of Community Engagement and Structural Competency in Medical Centers
Teaching Urbanism for Health
Partnerships for collective recovery in an immigrant/refugee community following massive trauma
Urban Housing and Asthma - An Example of the Impact of Medical-Legal Partnership in Keeping Children Healthy
From Punishment to Public Health: Cross-Sector Policy Innovations in Law Enforcement and Mental Health
From Policy to Partnership: How Allied Healthcare Workers Advance Structural Competency
Physicians as Policy Advocates: from the bedside to the state house.