The Power of Place: Travel to Explore Structural Racism and Health Disparities.

Problem: Dismantling structural racism is essential to achieving health equity, but there is little guidance for medical educators who wish to teach learners to recognize and confront structural racism.

Approach: Critical consciousness provides a framework to identify and dismantle structural racism. Using a critical consciousness approach, the authors developed a novel 5-day travel experience to the American South for medical residents and faculty to explore the history and legacy of structural racism and the Civil Rights Movement.

Effects of In-Person Navigation to Address Family Social Needs on Child Health Care Utilization: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Importance: While many organizations endorse screening for social risk factors in clinical settings, few studies have examined the health and utilization effects of interventions to address social needs.

Objective: To compare the acute care utilization effects of a written resources handout vs an in-person navigation service intervention to address social needs.

Design, Settings, And Participants: In this secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial, 1809 adult caregivers of pediatric patients seen in primary and urgent care clinics of 2 safety-net hospitals in northern California were recruited between October 13, 2013, and August 27, 2015.

Effects of Social Needs Screening and In-Person Service Navigation on Child Health: A Randomized Clinical Trial.

Importance: Social determinants of health shape both children's immediate health and their lifetime risk for disease. Increasingly, pediatric health care organizations are intervening to address family social adversity. However, little evidence is available on the effectiveness of related interventions.