Balancing the Scales of Opportunity: Ensuring Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Health Professions - Softcover

Institute Of Medicine; Committee To Increase Minority Participation In The Health Professions

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0309050782 ISBN 13: 9780309050784

Publisher: National Academies Press, 1994

Synopsis

The underrepresentation of minorities in health and other professions has long cast a shadow over our nation's efforts to develop a more representative and productive society. Many programs have been developed to enlarge the presence of minorities in health careers, but these efforts have been unable to develop the infrastructure and momentum needed to produce and sustain an adequate number of minority professionals among the ranks of clinicians, researchers, and teachers.

This book looks at the historical significance of this underrepresentation, presents data that define the problem, and identifies underlying factors that contribute to the failure to achieve fairness in opportunity.

The volume examines programs that have made successful efforts to decrease underrepresentation and sets forth an action and research agenda for further enhancing the numbers of minorities in the health professions.

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Marion Ein Lewin and Barbara Rice, Editors; Committee to Increase Minority Participation in the Health Professions, Institute of Medicine

Edition details

• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0309050782
• ISBN 13: 9780309050784
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 100
• Editor: Rice Barbara, Lewin Marion Ein