What is it about?
Persistent bias in US health, including in its organizations, poses a challenge to increasing diversity of the leadership of health care organizations. Strategies and tactics to increase leadership diversity must address this persistent bias.
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Why is it important?
Diversity among health leaders is critical to resolving health care disparities that is necessary to enhance health of the population as a whole.
Perspectives
Diversity among health care leaders will require sustained effort, including fighting bias inherent in health systems that reflects bias in US societies. Improved diversity will not come about naturally.
Dr Donald E Wesson
Baylor Scott and White Health
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This page is a summary of: Persistent Bias: A Threat to Diversity among Health Care Leaders, Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology, August 2018, American Society of Nephrology,
DOI: 10.2215/cjn.07290618.
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