Structural Competency in Conflict Zones

August 12, 2020

The journal cover for Policy, Politics, & Nursing Practice.In the Policy, Politics, and Nursing Practicearticle "Structural Competency in Conflict Zones: Challenging Depoliticization in Israel," former ISSI Visiting Scholar Zvika Orr discusses the implementation of structural competency training programs for nurses in conflict zones. Based in part on his participation in ISSI's Berkeley Center for Social Medicine's Structural Competency Working Group, Orr suggests adapting structural competency training programs to the political context in question in order to help nurses become agents of social change.