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Racial Concordance as a method to decrease healthcare disparities among African Americans

http://www.cwru.edu/med/epidbio/mphp439/Racial_Concordance.pdf

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What can be done?
The American college of Physicians in 2004 composed a position paper that supports more minority physicians in the US, however there are no clinical trial results that confirm the assumption that more minority physicians will result in a decrease in healthcare disparities. What is known that race concordant visits are more satisfying that discordant physicians visits. One solution ala Oprah Winfrey would be to recruit talented minority students, preferably within the first three years of grade school, and expose these students to study skills, state- of- the -art science and math courses and foster self esteem. Surround these students with positive role models, affirmations that empower and healthy foods and expect excellence. These students will become healthcare professionals and scientists, pass on their toolkit for life and success to their offspring which will again be passed on to where it is viewed as uncommon not to become an educated valuable part of society.