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标题：The importance of social determinants of health and the intersections of Medical and Dental Education
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作者：Rui Amaral Mendes
期刊名称：MedEdPublish
电子版ISSN：2312-7996
出版年度：2016
卷号：5
期号：3
页码：1-4
DOI：10.15694/mep.2016.000163
出版社：Association for Medical Education in Europe (AMEE)
摘要：The expanding “Global village” in which we live often leads modern healthcare to plunge itself into a diversity of cultural backgroundsand social-economics contexts that often pose a challenge not only for patients' management but, more importantly, generates the need to provide medical and dental students with the necessary competences to overcome the challenges set forwards for these particular environments, which can also be found in socially deprived contexts of the so called “rich countries".Associal determinants of health and socialaccountability become perceived as pivotal for theundergraduate medical and dental curricula, the actual delivery of thecurriculum,design of courses and preparation of learning and assessmentmaterials will present new challenges to medical and dental faculty, calling for a growing collaboration between these two healthcare professions (and others), in a rather demanding process that needs to be implementsince the first stages of the students education, while at theundergraduate level.
关键词：social determinants of health; social accountability; global health; interprofessional education