Why study health policy and administration?
Health care is a 1.7 trillion dollar industry, 15.3% of GDP, projected to reach $2 trillion by 2008 and 16% of GDP. The aging of the Baby Boom assures continued steep growth. Between 1998 and 2008, the health care industry will provide one-seventh of new jobs in the U.S. In 1998, general managers and top executives constituted 90,000 of the 597,000 holding managerial, administrative, and executive positions in health services. The Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates need for a 33% increase in health services managers in the next decade and a 30% increase in top executives, or 6,000 health services managers annually and 3,000 top managers.
