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Health Care
Health care is a diverse industry with a remarkable array of positions to choose from, employing about 14 million workers. As of 2006, 13.6 million positions were for company-employed workers, while 438,000 jobs were for the self-employed. The Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated that 3 million new jobs will be generated by the health care industry between 2006 and 2016 for company-employed workers, which is more than any other industry.
About 580,000 establishments make up the health care industry. Nearly 77 percent of health care establishments are offices of physicians, dentists or other health practitioners. Although hospitals make up only 1 percent of all health care establishments, they employ 35 percent of all workers. 
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Most workers in health care jobs provide clinical services, but many also are employed in occupations with other functions.
Many workers in the health care industry are on part-time schedules. Part-time workers made up about 19 percent of the health care workforce as a whole in 2006, but accounted for 38 percent of workers in offices of dentists and 31 percent of those in offices of other health practitioners.
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