Bringing abstract concepts to life: A health humanities-based approach to teaching social determinants of health.

ABSTRACT:

Background

To address health inequities, emergency physicians must understand the structural underpinnings of health disparities, including social determinants of health (SDoH), and must critically reflect on the integration of SDoH into clinical practice. SDoH education should include reflective knowledge acquisition, while incorporating systemic sociohistorical forces and individual factors, such as bias, which propagate inequities but are rarely emphasized in graduate medical education (GME). The health humanities (HH), an inclusive transdisciplinary field combining arts, humanities, and social justice, may represent a novel unexplored approach toward incorporating SDoH in GME.

Methods

We sought to implement and evaluate a GME HH-based curriculum focused on SDoH. An inter

SUBMITTER: Balhara KS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10950014 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature