Noble County Community Health Report

Health Professionals in Nobles County

The report is to analyze the condition of Health Professionals in Nobles County(MN) and create information about primary care health care providers that would be useful for planning and hiring purposes, including expected salary, projected shortages or oversupply, workplace setting, self-employment options, and other.

Overview: County Health Rankings include the ratio of population to primary care physicians, dentists, and mental health providers. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) provides information about occupations, including health care occupations. Workers are classified into occupational categories based on the work they perform and their skills, education, training, and credentials. BLS publishes a large amount of information by occupation, including career information, employment levels, and projections, and data on earnings and working conditions.

Instructions and content requirement:

1. Go to: https://www.bls.gov/emp/tables/occupational-projec…

a. Select the category “Healthcare Practitioners and Technical Occupations” (#29-0000).

b. Select primary care occupations, which generally include medical doctors (MDs) in family medicine, general internal medicine, pediatrics, and obstetrics-gynecology; osteopathic doctors (DOs), nurse practitioners, and physician assistants. c. Pull up useful data and create a table of relevant information about these professionals for planning and hiring purposes. (Despite BLS, you may want to consult data from other reliable sites)

2. Summarize findings from the tables with commentary.

a. What do the results of your inquiry suggest about opportunities and problems in hiring primary care professionals?

b. Explain or offer reasons for your conclusions.

Note: The report should focus on Nobles County in MN, not from a state level.

This report requires more research process than writing. Please make sure the data are focusing on this county Besides the data of Nobles County, the table should include the avg wage in Minneapolis as a comparison. Thanks in advance!

Also, I’d like you to shorten the words to 400 words, but there should definitely be more data. Here’s an example

try to search it on google to see other sources https://www.city-data.com/county/Nobles_County-MN….

https://mn.gov/deed/data/data-tools/oes/

I just googled out some sources, you may want to include some other similar ones.

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