National Center for Health Workforce Analysis

Health Workforce Reports

Nursing

The Registered Nurse Population: Findings from the 2008 National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses - September 2010 (PDF - 3 MB)

The Registered Nurse Population: Findings from the 2004 National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses - June 2006 (PDF - 2 MB)

The Registered Nurse Population: Findings from the 2000 National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses - March 2000 (PDF - 2 MB)

The Registered Nurse Population: Findings from the 1996 National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses - March 1996 (PDF - 6 MB)

The Registered Nurse Population: Findings from the 1992 National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses - March 1992 (PDF - 6 MB)

Toward a Method for Identifying Facilities and Communities with Shortages of Nurses: Summary Report - February 2007 (PDF - 1 MB)

Toward a Method for Identifying Facilities and Communities with Shortages of Nurses:Technical Report - February 2007 (PDF - 3 MB)

Nursing Education in Five States - 2005 (PDF - 625 KB)

Supply, Demand, and Use of Licensed Practical Nurses - November 2004 (PDF - 1 MB)

A Comparison of Changes in the Professional Practice of Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, and Certified Nurse Midwives: 1992 and 2000 - (PDF - 11 MB)

Nursing Aides, Home Health Aides, and Related Health Care Occupations - National and Local Workforce Shortages and Associated Data Needs - February 2004 (PDF - 2 MB)

Medicine

The Physician Workforce: Projections and Research into Current Issues Affecting Supply and Demand - December 2008 (PDF - 2 MB)

The Pediatric Rheumatology Workforce: A Study of the Supply and Demand for Pediatric Rheumatologist - February 2007 (PDF - 3 MB)

Report to Congress - The Critical Care Workforce: A Study of the Supply and Demand for Critical Care Physicians, Requested By: Senate Report 108-81 (PDF - 196 KB)

Globalization and the Physician Workforce in The United States - April 2002 (PDF - 366 KB)

Graduate Medical Education and Public Policy: A Primer - December 2000 (PDF - 757 KB)

A Comparison of Changes in the Professional Practice of Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, and Certified Nurse Midwives: 1992 and 2000 - (PDF - 11 MB)

Pharmacy

The Adequacy of Pharmacist Supply: 2004 to 2030 - December 2008 (PDF - 511 KB)

The Pharmacist Workforce: A Study of the Supply and Demand for Pharmacists - December 2000 (PDF - 1 MB)

The Clinical Laboratory Workforce: The Changing Picture of Supply, Demand, Education, and Practice - July 2005 (PDF - 381 KB)

Dentistry

Financing Dental Education: Public Policy Interests, Issues and Strategic Considerations - 2005 (PDF - 441 KB)

The Professional Practice Environment of Dental Hygienists in the Fifty States and the District of Columbia, 2001 - April 2004 (PDF - 4 MB)

Public Health

Public Health Workforce Study - January 2005 (PDF - 3 MB)

The Public Health Workforce Enumeration 2000 - December 2000 (PDF - 2 MB)

Community Health Workers National Workforce Study - March 2007 (PDF - 1 MB)

Community Health Worker National Workforce Study: An Annotated Bibliography - March 2007 (PDF - 431 KB)

Interdisciplinary

Pipeline Programs to Improve Racial and Ethnic Diversity in the Health Professions: An Inventory of Federal Programs, Assessment of Evaluation Approaches, and Critical Review of the Research Literature - April 2009 (PDF - 632 KB)

Evaluating Programs to Recruit Minorities into the Health Professions: Report of Two Evaluation Studies - April 2009 (PDF - 215 KB)

Border County Health Workforce Profiles: Arizona, California, Florida, New Mexico & Texas - May 2007

Community Health Workers National Workforce Study - March 2007 (PDF - 1 MB)

Community Health Worker National Workforce Study: An Annotated Bibliography - March 2007 (PDF - 476 KB)

The Rationale for Diversity in the Health Professions: A Review of the Evidence - October 2006 (PDF - 188 KB)

The United States Health Workforce Profile - October 2006 (PDF - 2 MB)

An Annotated Bibliography: Evaluations of Pipeline Development Programs Designed to Increase Diversity in the Health Professions - March 2006 (PDF - 128 KB)

An Aging U.S. Population and the Health Care Workforce: Factors Affecting the Need for Geriatric Care Workers - February 2006 (PDF - 659 KB)

Impact of the Aging Population on the Health Workforce in the United States - December 2005 (PDF - 257 KB)

Effects of the Workforce Investment Act of 1998 on Health Workforce Development in the States- November 2004 (PDF - 706 KB)

The Health Care Workforce: Education, Practice and Policy - Spring 2002 and 2004

State Responses to Health Worker Shortages: Results of 2002 Survey of States - November 2002 (PDF - 2 MB)

The Key Ingredient of the National Prevention Agenda: Workforce Development - A Companion Document to Healthy People 2010 - (PDF - 1 MB)

Other Disciplines

The Clinical Laboratory Workforce: The Changing Picture of Supply, Demand, Education, and Practice - July 2005 (PDF - 1 MB)

The Genetic Counselor Workforce - February 2000 (PDF - 206 KB)