In the Nation's Compelling Interest
eBook - PDF

In the Nation's Compelling Interest

Ensuring Diversity in the Health-Care Workforce

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  1. 430 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

In the Nation's Compelling Interest

Ensuring Diversity in the Health-Care Workforce

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About this book

The United States is rapidly transforming into one of the most racially and ethnically diverse nations in the world. Groups commonly referred to as minorities--including Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, African Americans, Hispanics, American Indians, and Alaska Natives--are the fastest growing segments of the population and emerging as the nation's majority. Despite the rapid growth of racial and ethnic minority groups, their representation among the nations health professionals has grown only modestly in the past 25 years. This alarming disparity has prompted the recent creation of initiatives to increase diversity in health professions.In the Nation's Compelling Interest considers the benefits of greater racial and ethnic diversity, and identifies institutional and policy-level mechanisms to garner broad support among health professions leaders, community members, and other key stakeholders to implement these strategies. Assessing the potential benefits of greater racial and ethnic diversity among health professionals will improve the access to and quality of healthcare for all Americans.

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Information

Publisher
National Academies Press
Year
2004
eBook ISBN
9780309530583
Edition
0
Topic
Medicine

Table of contents

  1. FrontMatter
  2. Reviewers
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Preface
  5. Contents
  6. Executive Summary
  7. 1 Introduction
  8. 2 Reconceptualizing Admissions Policies and Practices
  9. 3 Costs and Financing of Health Professions Education
  10. 4 Accreditation and Diversity in Health Professions
  11. 5 Transforming the Institutional Climate to Enhance Diversity in Health Professions
  12. 6 Community Benefit as a Tool for Institutional Reform
  13. 7 Mechanisms to Garner Support for Institutional and Policy-Level Diversity Initiatives
  14. APPENDIXES
  15. A Data Sources and Methods
  16. B Committee and Staff Biographies
  17. Commissioned Papers
  18. Paper Contribution A: Increasing Diversity in the Health Professions: A Look at Best Practices in Admissions--Gabriel Garcia, Cathryn L. Nation, and Neil H. Parker
  19. Paper Contribution B: The Role of Public Financing in Improving Diversity in the Health Professions--Karen Matherlee
  20. Paper Contribution C: The Role of Accreditation in Increasing Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Health Professions--Norma E. Wagoner, Ph.D., Leon Johnson, D.Ed., M.B.A., and Harry S. Jonas, M.D.
  21. Paper Contribution D: Diversity Considerations in Health Professions Education--Jeffrey F. Milem, Eric L. Dey, and Casey B. White,
  22. Index