The Effect of Provider Diversity on Racial Health Disparities: Evidence from the Military
利用军队医疗系统数据，研究发现医疗提供者的种族多样性显著减少了预防性护理和死亡率方面的种族健康差距，对慢性病患者尤为明显。
Abstract We assess the relationship between the racial diversity of medical providers and racial health disparities in the use of preventive care and in patient outcomes. We use unique data from the Military Health System, where we observe providers as patients so that we can identify their race, and where moves across bases change exposure to provider race in a plausibly exogenous fashion. We consider patients with four chronic, deadly, but manageable illnesses, where the relationship with the provider may have the most direct impact on health. We find striking evidence that provider racial diversity leads to reduced disparities in maintenance of preventive care and mortality.