Shortage of U.S. public health workers projected to worsen. (cover story)

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    • Subject Terms:
      LABOR supply; PUBLIC health; ASSOCIATIONS, institutions, etc.; RETIREMENT
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      CAPITOL Hill (Washington, D.C.); WASHINGTON (D.C.)
    • Abstract:
      This article presents information on a report released by the Association of Schools of Public Health at a briefing on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C. regarding the growing problem on public health work force shortage. The report shows that at least 23 percent of the current public health work force will be eligible to retire during the next presidential term. By 2020, an additional 250,000 public health workers are needed to dodge a work force shortage that would leave the nation vulnerable to a range of pending threats.