Healthcare and Diversity

Paper Summary:

The paper looks at diversity among management and their employees in the healthcare sector and discusses the needs of consumers who come from a low socio-economic status, racial minorities and women. The paper looks at effective approaches to diversity and shows how greater workforce diversity may lead to improved public health.

Outline:
The Role of Managers
Minorities: Lack of Proper Healthcare
Diversity and Women in Healthcare
Managing Diversity: Best Practices
Progress in Reform
Conclusions/Analysis

From the Paper:

"Healthcare Managers play a vital role in the development and implementation of their organization's diversity programs. They need to develop short-term, as well as, long-term diversity initiatives, such as improved internal structures/culture, reward systems and performance feedback. Gathering information about best practices is a good place to start. Ultimately, you'll need to identify what programs will be successful in your organization and how you will be able to measure that success.
"The need for diversity is important when it comes to healthcare management, says Rupert Evans, president and CEO of the Institute for Diversity in Health Management. "We need more minorities at the executive level," he says. While the percentage of minorities in management positions is still not large, "we have seen over the last five years that [diversity in management] is on the radar screen," he says."

Sample of Sources Used:

• American College of Healthcare Executives: A Comparison of the Career Attainments of Men and Women Healthcare Executives. Retrieved March 23, 2007 at: http://www.ache.org/PUBS/research/genderstudy_execsummary.cfm
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