The growth in employment occurred mainly in the public sector, however it does not, the private sector continues to account for the largest proportion of occupied Health.
In the total employed in the health sector are 335,000 in the public sector and 431 thousand people in the private sector. More than two thirds of those employed are women and almost 60% of workers in the sector have a high level of education.
The evolution of employment by company type shows that in the period 2003-2012 the most dynamic segment of the health sector is ‘prepaid medical services’, which expanded 95% in terms of employment. Secondly appear clinics, an increase of 67%. The segments ‘clinics and sanatoriums’ (55.2%), ‘community hospitals’ (50.6%) and ‘Social work’ (41%) show growth below the sector average.
Of the total workforce of the Public Health Sector most are not professionals (67.7%) workers. In the private sector, 71.6% are salaried and, among these, 75.4% are not professional. 20.5% are self-employed, but in this group the majority are professionals (72.5%).
Meanwhile, the sector analyzed is characterized by the strong presence of the phenomenon of moonlighting. While in the rest of the economy just 9.6% of employed has another occupation in the health sector this proportion rises to 26.4%. This differentiation is heightened among professionals where 43% of workers in the sector have more than one job, the total average working time for workers in the health sector, is 41.7 hours per week. The men work an average of almost seven women in the sector hours. It also highlights with most hours: professionals, employees and workers in the public sector. Workers who have only one occupation work on average 39.1 hours per week, while moonlighting are busy for 52.2 hours a week.
Regarding unregistered work in the private sector the rate of non-registration of health workers is 22%. This rate is higher among professionals (36.4%) than among non-professionals (17.1%). In the public sector the rate is significantly reduced for both professionals (10.5%) and non-professional (14.2).
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Employment situation of workers in the health sector – August 2013 Ministry of Labor, Employment and Social Security, prepared by the Secretariat for Technical Programming and Labor Studies – DGEyEL.
