Medical Care for Underserved & Marginalized Communities

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Course Description: Review the evidence about health outcomes for marginalized communities, to use the frameworks of ‘structural competency’ and ‘implicit bias’ to understand phenomena that drive disparities, to study the cases of several underserved communities in the Sacramento area, experience first-hand community organizations that are providing care to marginalized communities and practice how to identify in the clinical setting unmet social needs and their impact on health.