加拿大制药行业领导人的性别和种族化:一项横截面研究
Kasthuri Satgunanathan1, Aine Workentin1, Hannah Woods1
1MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
BMJ open
|November 14, 2023
概括
加拿大制药业的领导层主要是白人男性,种族化的女性代表性明显不足. 这种多样性差距可能会影响公平的医疗准入,需要政策关注.
科学领域:
- 卫生政策 卫生政策
- 制药行业 制药行业 制药行业
- 卫生社会学 卫生社会学
背景情况:
- 制药领导层缺乏多样性可能会延续医疗保健不平等.
- 了解领导层的人口统计学对于解决医药获取方面的系统性差异至关重要.
研究的目的:
- 评估加拿大制药行业领导人的性别和种族身份.
- 识别制药领导角色中代表性的差异.
主要方法:
- 横截面研究分析了加拿大政府机构,制药公司和保险公司的领导职位.
- 数据收集包括在互联网上搜索姓名,代词和机构资料,以确定性别和种族.
- 一个由三位审查员组成的过程确保了人口统计评估的准确性.
主要成果:
- 确定了957名领导者;39.2%是女性,与政府 (52.4%) 相比,在制药 (30.9%) 和保险 (37.0%) 角色中的代表性较低.
- 只有16.4%的领导人是种族化的,代表性因部门而异 (政府18.5%,制药18.1%,保险11.7%).
- 种族化女性占所有领导人的很小一部分 (5.0%),白人女性占34.2%.
结论:
- 加拿大制药行业的领导层主要由白人男性组成.
- 在这些关键职位上,种族化女性的代表性明显不足.
- 公共政策应解决制药领导层现有的性别和种族差异,以促进公平.
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