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Title: Part of the Solution: Pre-Baccalaureate Healthcare Workers in a Time of Health System Change

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Publication Year: 2014

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Abstract: Healthcare occupations account for a large and growing share of the workforce and span the education and earnings continuum. Although many discussions of the healthcare workforce focus on doctors and other occupations requiring advanced degrees, the healthcare system would not function without pre-baccalaureate workersthose with less than a bachelors degree. These workers perform a variety of clinical, assistive, and administrative tasks, and like all healthcare staff, should be working at their full level of competence in order to achieve the triple aim of improving the experience of care, improving health outcomes, and reducing per capita costs. While individuals with less than a bachelors degree work in multiple healthcare occupations, they are overwhelmingly concentrated in a subset of occupations. This report identifies the 10 largest pre-baccalaureate healthcare occupations, those in which substantial shares of workersranging from 39 percent to 94 percenthave less than a bachelors degree, and focuses on those workers in the 10 occupations, unless otherwise noted. Using labor market and American Community Survey data from 2000 and 2009-2011, this report examines the pre-baccalaureate healthcare workforce in the nations 100 largest metropolitan areas.

Url: http://www.brookings.edu/research/interactives/2014/healthcare-workers#/M10420

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Authors: Ross, Martha; Svajlenka, Nicole P; Williams, Jane R.

Publisher: Brookings Institution: Washington DC.

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Health, Labor Force and Occupational Structure

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