Blacks, Latinos and Native Americans Severely Underrepresented in Health Workforce, New Study Says3/31/2021 WASHINGTON (March 31, 2021) — In 2019, Blacks, Latinos and Native Americans were severely underrepresented in the health care workforce, a trend that shows limited signs of improvement, according to a study published today by George Washington University researchers.
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Drs. Roberto Delhy (HPM Lecturer), Avi Dor, and Patricia Pittman published a paper on hospital worker productivity and patient satisfaction in Medical Care Research and Review, "The Impact of Nursing Staff on Satisfaction Scores for U.S. Hospitals: A Production Function Approach". The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality sponsored the study.
A longstanding failure of the U.S. health care system is that minority and vulnerable populations experience poorer health outcomes and higher death rates. The Covid-19 pandemic and other public health emergencies extend and deepen this failure.
Mullan Institute team members Drs. Jamar Slocum, Natalie Kirilichin, and Isabel Chen published "Med students, physicians need social mission education now more than ever" op-ed in STAT News. The racial equity movement and COVID-19 are bringing needed public attention to the structural racism and inequities that underlie social and health disparities in the United States. The police killings of George Floyd and so many other Black lives have brought about increasing calls for police reform. In Minneapolis, where George Floyd’s killing occurred, the City Council recently approved a proposal to disband their police department and replace it with a new Department of Community Safety and Violence Prevention. This increasing attention and action on structural racism is occurring across systems—in criminal justice, housing, education, and healthcare.
Drs. Xinxin Han, Candice Chen, and Patricia Pittman of the Mullan Institute co-authored this Journal of Rural Health article that examines the use of temporary providers in federally qualified health centers (FQHCs) in recent years and identifies associated factors. They describe trends in the number and percentage of FQHCs that used temporary primary care physicians and advanced practice providers (nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and certified nurse midwives). Read the full article.
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