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Health Workforce Studies

Index of All Health Workforce Reports

Nursing

The Registered Nurse Population: Findings from the 2008 National Sample Survey of Registered Nurses - September 2010 (PDF - 2.8 MB)

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

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

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

Nurse Practitioners in New York State, A Profile of the Profession in 2000  - November 2004 (PDF - 282 KB)

A Comparison of Changes in the Professional Practice of Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, and Certified Nurse Midwives: 1992 and 2000  - February 2004 (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)

Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants and Certified Nurse Midwives in California - April 2000 (PDF - 1 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)

A Comparison of Changes in the Professional Practice of Nurse Practitioners, Physician Assistants, and Certified Nurse Midwives: 1992 and 2000  - February 2004 (PDF - 11 MB)

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)

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

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 - November 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 2004 (PDF - 215 KB)

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

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

Community Health Worker National Workforce Study: An Annotated Bibliography - March 2007

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 (ZIP - 2 MB)

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

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 - January 2006

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: Three reports detail data and trends in a total of 26 States.

State Responses to Health Worker Shortages: Results of 2002 Survey of States - May 2003 (PDF - 1.5 MB)

The Key Ingredient of the National Prevention Agenda: Workforce Development - A Companion Document to Healthy People 2010 - June 2001 (PDF -  1MB)

Other Disciplines

Financing Dental Education: Public Policy Interests, Issues and Strategic Considerations (PDF - 1 MB)

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

The Professional Practice Environment of Dental Hygienists in the Fifty States and the District of Columbia, 2001 - April 2004 (PDF - 3 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)

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

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