Increase in Black pharmacists comes almost entirely from Black women, according to new data
Health care providers often hear that patients want to receive care from someone who looks like them. In the medical sphere, a growing body of research even supports the claim that this leads to better care, but the majority of physicians are not representative of certain minority groups.
Researchers wanted to find out if other fields of health care, such as pharmacy and dentistry, had similar underrepresentation by race, ethnicity, and sex. They published their results in JAMA Network Open.
While there were increases in Black and Hispanic women in these occupations according to the findings, and even larger increases among white and Asian women, the study found no improvement in the representation of Black and Hispanic men in pharmacy and dentistry.
