Models for the Supply of Pharmacists

A demand for better data about pharmacists as working health professionals led the authors to study the work patterns of 1,146 pharmacists over a 30-year period from 1959 to 1989. Work history data were used to determine gender-specific participation rates as a function of age, years in the work force, and date. Percent full-time (as opposed to part-time) work as a gender-specific function of age was also determined. Participation rates for males and females, widely disparate in the 1960s, have converged and are not significantly different. Graduates of the 1980s, both male and female, are remaining with pharmacy as an occupation at a significantly higher rate than earlier graduates. Percent full-time rates for women pharmacists are significantly lower than those for male pharmacists, although women have registered significant increases in percent full-time work in each decade from the 1960s to the 1980s. An unexpected finding was the overall reduced participation by graduates of the years 1970 to 1979. The findings of the study are helpful in explaining recent controversies about the adequacy of the supply of pharmacists. The form of the data bases constructed for this study could be used as a model for the study of other health professionals.

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How Many Pharmacists Are In Our Future?: The Bureau of Health Professions Projects Supply to 2020

Gershon¹,

Cultice²,

Knapp³

2000

JMCP

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To describe a Bureau of Health Professions (BHPr) model for estimating the numbers and selected demographic characteristics of active pharmacists in the United States and to relate the model's findings, DESIGN: We constructed a model using as base counts data from the Pharmacy Manpower Project census of 1989-1991 and advancing the counts annually based on estimates of pharmacists entering and leaving the workforce. The total number of active pharmacists in any year was the sum of the male and female cohorts from age 24 through age 75. The model and its underlying assumptions included consideration of U.S. graduates through 1998, international pharmacy graduates who become licensed in the United States, new schools, type of entry-level degrees, and separation rates.

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Models for the Supply of Pharmacists

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How Many Pharmacists Are in Our Future? The Bureau of Health Professions Projects Supply to 2020

How Many Pharmacists Are in Our Future? The Bureau of Health Professions Projects Supply to 2020

Work Patterns of Male and Female Pharmacists

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