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National Center for Health Workforce Analysis

Health Workforce Reports

Nursing

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 (PDF - 2 MB) February 2004

Medicine

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

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

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 (PDF - 366 KB) April 2002

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

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 (PDF - 511 KB) December 2008 

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

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

Dentistry

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

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

Public Health

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

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

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

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

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 (PDF - 632 KB) April 2009

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 (PDF - 1 MB) July 2005

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

Area Resource File

Health Resources County Comparison Tool

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Health Workforce Statistics