Asian American Diversity and Representation in the Health Care Workforce, 2007 to 2022.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Asian American individuals comprise over 40 ethnoracial groups but are regularly aggregated into 1 category within health workforce analysis, thus obscuring substantial inequities in representation.

Objectives

To describe trends in Asian American diversity across the 4 most populous US health professions (physicians, registered nurses, nursing assistants, and home health aides) and to characterize subgroup representation within professions.

Design, setting, and participants

Serial cross-sectional study from American Community Survey (ACS) population estimates of people reporting health profession occupations from 2007 to 2022. The ACS samples US residents every day, with approximately 3.5 million surveyed each year. Based on their sampling methods, the ACS

SUBMITTER: Ko M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11581573 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature