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. 2025 Jan;59(1):22-24.
doi: 10.1111/medu.15566. Epub 2024 Oct 17.

When I say … social responsiveness

Anthea Hansen  1 , Susan Camille van Schalkwyk  1 , Cecilia Jacobs  1
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When I say … social responsiveness

Anthea Hansen et al. Med Educ. 2025 Jan.

Abstract

Hansen et al. grapple with the term "socially responsiveness" to contend that HPE should prioritize questioning the causes of health inequity with a view to transforming systems into socially just spaces.

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