In the nations compelling interest ensuring diversity in the health care workforce committee on institutional and policy level strategies for increasing the diversity of the us health care workforce board on health sciences policy brian d smedley adrienne stith butler lonnie r bristow editors p cm. Health cares compelling interest ensuring diversity in the health care workforce abstract the united states is rapidly becoming a more diverse nation as demonstrated by the fact that nonwhite racial and ethnic groups will constitute a majority of the american population later in this century. Suggested citationindexinstitute of medicine 2004 in the nations compelling interest ensuring diversity in the health care workforcewashington dc the national academies press doi 1017226 10885. In the nations compelling interest ensuring diversity in the health care workforce show details institute of medicine us committee on institutional and policy level strategies for increasing the diversity of the us healthcare workforce smedley bd stith butler a bristow lr editors. In the nations compelling interest ensuring diversity in the health care workforce washington dc the national academies press mertz e oneil e 2002 the growing challenge of providing oral health care services to all americans health affairs 21565 77 mertz ea grumbach k 2001