The AHS Index is a new way to look at data that illuminates a snapshot of our world today. It is intended to highlight health inequities and spark conversation, debate, outrage, and wonder.
Years that affirmative action was a legal precedent in college admissions decisions: 45
Increase in college enrollments of Black students after affirmative action policies were enacted: 164%
Percent of Americans who approve of the Supreme Court’s decision against the use of affirmative action in Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. President and Fellows of Harvard College: 57
Increase in women who received bachelor’s degrees after affirmative action policies were enacted: 66%
Percent of white women who disapprove of affirmative action: 70
Percent by which Black men are more likely to agree to preventive health services after seeing a Black doctor, as opposed to a white doctor: 18
Projected reduction in the Black/white cardiovascular mortality gap if Black doctors screened Black patients: 19 percent
Percentage of U.S. medical school graduates who are Black, according to the most recent AAMC data available: 6
Hispanic: 5
Asian: 21
White: 54
Percentage of first-year medical school interns and residents in AHS’ 2022 entering class who were Black: 16*
Hispanic: 12*
Asian: 42*
White: 14*
Multiracial: 10*
Decrease in a patient’s odds of death, when they receive care from doctors who are the same race as them: 15%
Decrease in a patient’s odds of death, when they receive care in their native language: 54%
*Source: Alameda Health System Graduate Medical Education Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) Data