Healthcare & Medicine: The most lethal version of the gap.
Medicine has the largest absolute gap, the longest training pipeline, and the most studied effect of representation on outcomes. Concordance changes mortality. The numbers below have a body count.
Latino representation across sub-occupations.
Gold line = 19.5% U.S. Latino population parity (Census ACS 2023). Each row sourced individually below.
Primary source: AAMC (2024). Physician Specialty Data Report. American Medical Association.
The mechanism inside this number.
A growing body of peer-reviewed research, including a 2020 Oakland RCT (Greenwood et al., NBER 26967), shows representation in healthcare moves measurable outcomes. care uptake, adherence, and in some studies, mortality. The gap in physicians alone (6.7% vs. 19.5% population) is among the most-cited in medical education research.
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