Enhancing Pediatric Workforce Diversity and Providing Culturally Effective Pediatric Care: Implications for Practice, Education, and Policy Making

COMMITTEE ON PEDIATRIC WORKFORCE; Pletcher, Beth A.; Rimsza, Mary Ellen; Basco, William T.; Hotaling, Andrew J.; Sigrest, Ted D.; Simon, Frank A.

doi:10.1542/peds.2013-2268

Enhancing Pediatric Workforce Diversity and Providing Culturally Effective Pediatric Care: Implications for Practice, Education, and Policy Making

This policy statement serves to combine and update 2 previously independent but overlapping statements from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) on culturally effective health care (CEHC) and workforce diversity. The AAP has long recognized that with the ever-increasing diversity of the pedia…