The State Health Workforce Profiles compile
accurate and current data on supply, demand, distribution, education and use of health
personnel. Estimated numbers of workers indicate the size of the state's health workforce.
Per capita ratios facilitate comparisons with other states and the nation. Each Profile
has three sections:
- Brief overview of residents' health status and health services
that influence supply of and demand for health workers
- Health care employment by place of work, including hospitals,
nursing homes and other settings
- Health care employment in more than 25 health professions and
occupations
The State Health
Workforce Data Resource Guide will help you use the data and direct you to
sources of more detailed data that address different health workforce issues.
All 51 State Health Workforce Profiles and
the companion Resource Guide are available on CD-ROM and in paper copies
at no charge through the HRSA
Information Center, 1-888-275-4772 (1-888-ASK-HRSA).
The Profiles were developed for the HRSA
Bureau of Health Professions National Center for Health Workforce Information and Analysis
by the Center for Health Workforce Studies at the
State University of New York at Albany.