Enumeration of the governmental public health workforce, 2014.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Regular assessment of the size and composition of the U.S. public health workforce has been a challenge for decades. Previous enumeration efforts estimated 450,000 public health workers in governmental and voluntary agencies in 2000, and 326,602 governmental public health workers in 2012, although differences in enumeration methodology and the definitions of public health worker between the two make comparisons problematic.

Purpose

To estimate the size of the governmental public health workforce in 14 occupational classifications recommended for categorizing public health workers.

Methods

Six data sources were used to develop enumeration estimates: five for state and local public health workers and one for the federal public health workforce. Statistical ad

SUBMITTER: Beck AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6944190 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature