Many of the health care workers serving Americans were either born or educated abroad? Where do they come from? A paper by Chen et al. (2013) gives the answer.
Top 5 countries for foreign educated physicians
- India: 20.4%
- Philippines: 8.1%
- Pakistan: 6.0%
- Mexico: 5.4%
- Dominican Republic: 3.2%
Top 5 countries for foreign educated nurses (RNs)
- Philippines: 50.1%
- Canada: 11.9%
- India: 9.6%
- United Kingdom 6.0%
- Nigeria: 2.1%
Top 5 countries for direct care workers (e.g., home health aides, nurse aides)
- Mexico: 15.3%
- Philippines: 9.7%
- Jamaica: 9.0%
- Haiti: 8.1%
- Dominican Republic: 5.0%
Source:
- Peggy G. Chen, David I. Auerbach, Ulrike Muench, Leslie A. Curry, and Elizabeth H. Bradley. Policy Solutions to Address The Foreign Educated and Foreign-Bord Health Care Workforce in The United States. Health Affairs 32(11): 2013.
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