Report Highlights Lack of Medical Worker Diversity – and How to Fix That

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Racial and ethnic diversity among medical workers is critical to Americans' health, but more needs to be done to recruit, train and support those professionals, a new report says.

The report, published recently in the American Heart Association journal Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, describes barriers to a diverse workforce, highlights statistics on the problem and suggests ways for leaders to reshape the system to address it.

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