Asian American diversity and representation in the health care workforce, 2007 to 2022

Asian American diversity and representation in the health care workforce, 2007 to 2022
JAMA Network Open; Michelle Ko, MD, PhD; Kevin Dinh, MS; Sarah Iv, BS; Monica Hahn, MD; 10/24
In this serial cross-sectional study of American Community Survey 1-year estimates from 2007 to 2022, Filipinx Americans had consistently high representation among registered nurses and nursing assistants; Indian, Pakistani, and Chinese Americans predominated among physicians, whereas Hmong and Cambodian American representation in medicine remained substantially below general population representation. Bangladeshi and Chinese American representation grew among home health aides over the study period. These findings suggest that aggregation of Asian American subgroups into a single racialized group erases substantial inequities in health workforce diversity.