US County-Level Variation in Availability and Prevalence of Black Physicians in 1906.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Black physicians are substantially underrepresented in the US health care workforce, with detrimental effects on the health and health care experiences of Black individuals. These contemporary gaps can be traced to the early days of the medical profession using the first edition of the American Medical Directory (AMD).

Objective

To identify state- and county-level patterns related to the training and availability of Black physicians relative to their White counterparts in the 1906 AMD.

Design, setting, and participants

For this cross-sectional study, data for 41 828 physician entries in 18 US states in or adjacent to the South as well as the District of Columbia were extracted from the 1906 AMD and aggregated to 1570 counties. Data analysis was performed be

SUBMITTER: Chrisinger BW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11087833 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature