Walton Surrey M, Kim Kibum, Weiner Saul J
Dep. of Pharmacy Systems, Outcomes and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago, 833 S. Wood Street, MC 871, Chicago, IL 60612, USA. Tel +1 312-993-2775.
J Allied Health. 2017 Fall;46(3):197-202.
Recent trends in wages and employment should be considered to help inform recruitment and expansion planning for educational programs related to the future healthcare workforce. We present a relatively straightforward method for assessing a broad set of health labor market trends from 2010 to 2014 based on the number employed and wage rates across all healthcare-related occupational categories available from the Occupational Employment Statistics data. To focus more on trends within the healthcare sector, we used the relative wages and employment of the occupations compared to medical doctors. Of 19 broad occupational categories, pharmacists, physician assistants, and occupational and physical therapists have been experiencing a growth in demand relative to medical doctors as evidenced by a growth in relative wages and employment. There is also clear evidence of a reduction in the relative supply of allied health workers. Specifically, across all allied healthcare workers, there was an increase in relative wages (2.28%) and a decline in relative employment (-3.64%). Occupations with increases in wages and number employed are likely to be good areas for programs to expand both in terms of the future economic welfare of their graduates and to help meet market demand.
应考虑工资和就业的近期趋势，以帮助为与未来医疗劳动力相关的教育项目的招聘和扩张规划提供信息。我们提出了一种相对简单的方法，基于职业就业统计数据中所有医疗相关职业类别的就业人数和工资率，评估2010年至2014年广泛的卫生劳动力市场趋势。为了更关注医疗部门内部的趋势，我们使用了与医生相比各职业的相对工资和就业情况。在19个广泛的职业类别中，药剂师、医师助理以及职业治疗师和物理治疗师相对于医生的需求一直在增长，相对工资和就业的增长证明了这一点。也有明确证据表明辅助医疗人员的相对供应有所减少。具体而言，在所有辅助医疗人员中，相对工资上涨了2.28%，相对就业下降了3.64%。工资和就业人数增加的职业，从毕业生未来的经济福利以及帮助满足市场需求的角度来看，可能是项目扩张的良好领域。
