Graphical Portrait of Frontline Health and Health Care Workforce Published in a Chartbook
Defining RWJF's scope of interest in frontline health and health care workers
Staff from Health Workforce Solutions (HWS) conducted a study to define and characterize the occupations that make up the frontline health and health care workforce to assist staff from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) in identifying priorities for future investment.
Staff also produced a chartbook containing comprehensive employment data on the frontline health and health care workforce.
Key Results
- Project staff produced a 239-page chartbook, Workers Who Care: A Graphical Profile of the Frontline Health and Health Care Workforce. HWS then published it as a CD.
Key Findings
- More than 6 million people work in frontline occupations, half of the total health and health care workforce.
- Females dominate the frontline workforce (79 percent), with one-third of the workers part of a racial minority (18 percent African American, 10 percent Hispanic and 4 percent Asian).
- This workforce is growing rapidly and its workers are poorly paid.
Funding
RWJF provided two grants totaling $509,055 to support this project from November 2004 through December 2006.