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Age, disability, and household composition of nurses and physicians who are not in the labor force
While several areas in the United States have asked nurses and physicians who are not in the labor force to return to help with the COVID-19 pandemic, little is known about the characteristics of these clinicians that may present barriers to returning. We studied age, disability, and household compo...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7909633/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33635918 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247967 |
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description | While several areas in the United States have asked nurses and physicians who are not in the labor force to return to help with the COVID-19 pandemic, little is known about the characteristics of these clinicians that may present barriers to returning. We studied age, disability, and household composition of clinicians not in the workforce using the American Community Survey from 2014 to 2018, a nationally-representative survey of US households administered by the US Census. Overall, we found that, for nurses and physicians not in the labor force, over three-quarters were 55 and over and about 15 percent had a disability. For female nurses and physicians not in the labor force, over half of those ages 20–54 had a child under 15 at home and over half of those ages 65+ had another adult 65 and over at home. These characteristics may present challenges and risks to returning. |
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spelling | pubmed-79096332021-03-05 Age, disability, and household composition of nurses and physicians who are not in the labor force Ly, Dan P. PLoS One Research Article While several areas in the United States have asked nurses and physicians who are not in the labor force to return to help with the COVID-19 pandemic, little is known about the characteristics of these clinicians that may present barriers to returning. We studied age, disability, and household composition of clinicians not in the workforce using the American Community Survey from 2014 to 2018, a nationally-representative survey of US households administered by the US Census. Overall, we found that, for nurses and physicians not in the labor force, over three-quarters were 55 and over and about 15 percent had a disability. For female nurses and physicians not in the labor force, over half of those ages 20–54 had a child under 15 at home and over half of those ages 65+ had another adult 65 and over at home. These characteristics may present challenges and risks to returning. Public Library of Science 2021-02-26 /pmc/articles/PMC7909633/ /pubmed/33635918 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247967 Text en © 2021 Dan P. Ly http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article Ly, Dan P. Age, disability, and household composition of nurses and physicians who are not in the labor force |
title | Age, disability, and household composition of nurses and physicians who are not in the labor force |
title_full | Age, disability, and household composition of nurses and physicians who are not in the labor force |
title_fullStr | Age, disability, and household composition of nurses and physicians who are not in the labor force |
title_full_unstemmed | Age, disability, and household composition of nurses and physicians who are not in the labor force |
title_short | Age, disability, and household composition of nurses and physicians who are not in the labor force |
title_sort | age, disability, and household composition of nurses and physicians who are not in the labor force |
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url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7909633/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33635918 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0247967 |
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