Decline in number of African-American male physicians called a crisis

According to Nature magazine, the percentage of African-American medical graduates reached 57% in 1986, by 2015 this percentage fell to 35%.

Recent studies by the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medical Research Institute show that this decline arises from several factors including the history of financial and ethnic barriers, and the lack of significant government intervention in such differences Indicated.

The number of African-American students attending medical school has increased over the past 30 years, but the reason for this increase is that more African-American women are trained to become physicians - According to a percentage survey of African-American male medical students, more than 20% decrease over the same period

Cato T. Laurencin, a professor at the University of Connecticut University Medical School in Farmington, MD and a doctor, said in a meeting report. "This crisis will affect not only blacks but also the outstanding abilities of science and medicine."

The decline of a black male doctor also brings problems to the type of care the patient has. The authors of this study stated that ethnic diversity of physicians will help address health inequalities, as ethnic minority people are more attentive when doctors have similar backgrounds It was.

Liliana Garces, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy at the University of Texas at Austin, said, "Ethnic diversity will not only increase the number of physicians but will also allow entry into a more colorful community." Told.

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In recent years, policy concerns regarding the crisis of African-American men have focused on various areas where African-American men suffer from an imbalanced social illness. These include education, housing, employment, and health care. However, perhaps in any other field, these problems are not as prominently proved as crime and criminal justice system. African Americans are affected by two important issues in this regard. First, African Americans are more likely to be more victims of crime than other Americans. This has created various personal and regional problems that have hindered other areas of production activities. Second, some form of criminal justice supervision by African-American men produces a complex series of results that affect not only individual victims and criminals, but also family and community.

One of the reasons for the higher prison vacancy rate of African-American men is the decrease in the number of men in the African-American community. In addition to high murder rates, AIDS related deaths and other factors, this has led to a serious imbalance in the ratio of adult African-American men to women. African Americans were born at a sex ratio of about 102-103 men per 100 females, but age ranged from 40 to 44 years old, decreased to 86 per 100 females. On the other hand, the ratio of whites in the group is 100: 100.

Due to violent crime, increased percentage of accommodation, and improper medical treatment, high mortality rates have shown that the population of African-American men is decreasing. This may be the only reason why black women are accelerating family management acceleration and parenting.

Despite the fact that the violent crime rate has fallen sharply in the whole country, African-American men still died of criminal murder at an alarming rate. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), violent crime in the United States has declined since 1991. 1 Both politicians welcomed the recent decline, but the violent crime rate remains unacceptably high, and still beyond the level In the past decade, the degree of progress in violent crime fighting In order to measure and understand the progress to be made, Heritage Foundation analysts looked at a single data. The most vulnerable group in America - a young African-American male living in the largest eight city communities in the USA