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U. Albany Research Center Predicts
Health Care Jobs to Soar
Business Review
September 2, 2004
The country's growing elderly population and an aging workforce will balloon health-care employment 30 percent in the next eight years, a state University at Albany study shows.
The United States' health sector should pick up another 3.5 million jobs by 2012, UAlbany's center for health workforce studies says in a report entitled "Health Care Employment Projections: An analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics Projections, 2002-2012."
Non health-sector employment is expected to grow by only 13.5 percent.
Jean Moore, the Center's director, said demand for health care services will grow because the U.S. elderly population could increase to nearly 17 percent by 2020.
Also, health-care workers could make up about 9 percent of the country's total workforce as new positions are created and people retire from older positions.
The Center for Health Workforce Studies is a nonprofit organization that collects and analyzes health workforce data.
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