当地公共卫生工作人员的种族和民族代表性
Casey P Balio1, Haleigh Leslie1, Michael B Meit1
1Casey P. Balio, Haleigh Leslie, and Michael Meit are with the Center for Rural Health and Research and the Department of Health Services Management and Policy, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City. H. Leslie is a DrPH candidate.
American journal of public health
|December 19, 2024
概括
当地卫生部门 (LHD) 的劳动力在城市地区比农村地区更能代表他们所服务的社区. 调查结果突出了LHDs种族和民族多样性的差异,为公共卫生招聘策略提供了信息.
科学领域:
- 公共卫生 劳动力的多样性 公共卫生 劳动力的多样性
- 健康 公平 卫生 公平
- 社区健康评估
背景情况:
- 当地卫生部门 (LHDs) 对社区卫生服务至关重要.
- 评估LHD劳动力的种族和民族代表性对于公平的公共卫生服务至关重要.
- 劳动力多样性的差异可能会影响服务提供和社区信任.
研究的目的:
- 评估田纳西州LHD劳动力的种族和民族代表性.
- 将LHD劳动力人口统计数据与他们服务的人口的种族和民族组成进行比较.
- 确定与LHD劳动力代表性相关的因素.
主要方法:
- 采用2021年公共卫生工作人员利益和需求调查和2019年全国县和城市卫生官员协会个人资料数据进行的横截面研究.
- 代表性被衡量为一个二元结果:至少代表每个种族/民族群体的服务人口.
- 两变量和多变量分析检查了按地区,农村和机构特征的代表性.
主要成果:
- 调查发现,60%的LHD至少代表黑人,土著和有色人种.
- 在大多数群体中,与农村服务的LHD相比,在城市服务的LHD显示出更高的种族和民族代表性.
- 劳动力代表性因地理区域,农村和特定种族或种族群体而异.
结论:
- 在LHD劳动力中的种族和民族代表性不均,受农村,地区和人口组成的影响.
- 这些发现强调了需要有针对性的战略来增强公共卫生工作人员的多样性.
- 通知招聘,培训和留守工作对于实现更具代表性的LHD劳动力和促进健康公平至关重要.
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