Competencies related to social determinants of health, equity and social accountability have emerged as central axes of public health competency assessment¶

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Evidence · 1 study · review r2 · q3
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q3 i? The synthesis identifies social determinants of health, equity and social accountability competencies as central axes of assessment, expanding the educational approach towards population and structural dimensions of health. → Hernández Rincón Erwin Hernando 2026

Evidence¶

Hernández Rincón Erwin Hernando 2026¶

Hernández Rincón Erwin Hernando, González Garcés Mariana, Montoya Jerónimo Cárdenas, Fernández Valeria Concha, Torres Mario Andrés Torres, Vargas Villafañe Nicolle Valeria, Chaves Natalia Castaño. (2026). Mapping the evidence on public health competency assessment strategies in undergraduate medical education: a scoping review. BMC Medical Education. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12909-026-09976-0

q3 · i? · review · r2

Narrative synthesis finding, the second dominant pattern. The review also states that experiential strategies such as community-based learning and service learning enabled integration of social determinants of health into assessment processes, and lists a dedicated SDOH/equity evaluative domain in Table 3.

"Secondly, competencies related to social determinants of health, equity and social accountability emerge as central axes of assessment, reflecting an expansion of the educational approach towards population and structural dimensions of health [22–25, 28, 29]."

Discussion¶

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