Minority and Nonminority Pediatricians' Care of Minority and Poor Children

Brotherton, Sarah E.; Stoddard, Jeffrey J.; Tang, Suk-fong S.

doi:10.1001/archpedi.154.9.912

Cited by 43 publications

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“…Minority physicians were found to serve minority and other medically underserved populations disproportionately, thereby improving access to care for vulnerable populations [9]. Moreover, increased health profession diversity affords minority patients from groups underrepresented in the health professions more opportunities for treatment by practitioners of their own ethnic background [44].…”

Section: Minorities and Medical Career Choice-the Israeli Casementioning

confidence: 99%

“It’s Every Family’s Dream”: Choice of a Medical Career Among the Arab Minority in Israel

Popper‐Giveon

Keshet

2016

J Immigrant Minority Health

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Application to medical studies and the choice of medicine as a career are influenced by many factors, some internal (academic ability, intellectual curiosity, interests) and some external (parental pressure, peer pressure, teacher and school expectations). Ethnicity plays a role in motivational orientation and belonging to an ethnic minority group may influence both internal and external motives and priorities in choosing medicine as a career. In this article, we present a qualitative study of the motives that impel Arab physicians in Israel to choose a medical career. As a theoretical framework, we apply self-determination theory (SDT) (Ryan and Deci in Am Psychol 55:68-78, 2000), consisting of three principal categories situated along a continuum: Amotivation, extrinsic motivation and intrinsic motivation. We show that extrinsic motivation is dominant among Arab physicians in Israel, demonstrating specifically the unique political context and cultural characteristics of Arab society in Israel. These findings, and the attention to the unique motivations of people from different ethnic minority groups who choose medical career, may increase the number of physicians from minority groups, a step known to decrease health gaps in multi-cultural contexts.

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Section: Minorities and Medical Career Choice-the Israeli Casementioning

confidence: 99%

“It’s Every Family’s Dream”: Choice of a Medical Career Among the Arab Minority in Israel

Popper‐Giveon

Keshet

2016

J Immigrant Minority Health

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“…In a national survey, underrepresented minority pediatricians reported that 53 percent of their patients were on Medicaid or uninsured, compared to 40 percent for nonminority pediatricians. 15 Notably, minority pediatricians from higher-class backgrounds served more underserved patients than nonminority pediatricians from lower-class backgrounds. In another national survey, Gang Xu and colleagues found that among nonminority generalist physicians, those with the lowest reported childhood family income served the highest proportion of uninsured or poor patients (23 percent).…”

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Race-Neutral Versus Race-Conscious Workforce Policy To Improve Access To Care

Saha¹,

Shipman²

2008

Health Affairs

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Access to care for racial and ethnic minority groups, low-income populations, and the un- and underinsured has been problematic despite expansion in the health workforce. Workforce policies that improve access to care are needed, as is funding to support them. Reviewing evidence related to providers' patterns of service to the underserved, this paper concludes that underrepresented minority health professionals have consistently been more likely than those from low socioeconomic backgrounds or the National Health Service Corps to deliver health care to the underserved. These findings have implications for policies and programs that might leverage the workforce to better meet the needs of disadvantaged patients.

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“…Physicians from underrepresented minority groups are known to preferentially provide care for patients from minority and underserved groups. [75][76][77][78][79] Furthermore, many individuals of minority groups prefer physicians of similar racial or ethnic background and are more likely to seek care when such a clinician is available. 80 Other necessary measures to improve the delivery of care include the development of greater cultural competence in current and new physicians 81 and better identification of health system-specific disparities.…”

Section: Racial/ethnic Diversitymentioning

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The Pediatrician Workforce: Current Status and Future Prospects

Goodman¹,

Anderson²,

Friedman³

et al. 2005

Pediatrics

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ABSTRACT. The effective and efficient delivery of children's health care depends on the pediatrician workforce. The number, composition, and distribution of pediatricians necessary to deliver this care have been the subject of long-standing policy and professional debate. This technical report reviews current characteristics and recent trends in the pediatric workforce and couples the workforce to a conceptual model of improvement in children's health and well-being. Important recent changes in the workforce include (1)

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Minority and Nonminority Pediatricians' Care of Minority and Poor Children

Cited by 43 publications

References 14 publications

“It’s Every Family’s Dream”: Choice of a Medical Career Among the Arab Minority in Israel

“It’s Every Family’s Dream”: Choice of a Medical Career Among the Arab Minority in Israel

Race-Neutral Versus Race-Conscious Workforce Policy To Improve Access To Care

The Pediatrician Workforce: Current Status and Future Prospects

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