Journal
JOURNAL OF BIOETHICAL INQUIRY
Volume 13, Issue 2, Pages 185-192Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11673-016-9715-3
Keywords
Structural competency; Fundamental cause theory; Fundamental interventions; Social determinants; Population health
Funding
- NIDA NIH HHS [K01 DA032674] Funding Source: Medline
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In order to enhance the structural competency of medicine-the capability of clinicians to address social and institutional determinants of their patients' health-physicians need a theoretical lens to see how social conditions influence health and how they might address them. We consider one such theoretical lens, fundamental cause theory, and propose how it might contribute to a more structurally competent medical profession. We first describe fundamental cause theory and how it makes the social causes of disease and health visible. We then outline the sorts of fundamental interventions that physicians might make in order to address the fundamental causes.
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