Professional insertion of public health into the workforce

Abstract

The Undergraduate program in Collective Health has been present in Brazil for about 15 years and has faced challenges regarding the insertion of its graduates. To answer the research objective, a longitudinal analytical-descriptive investigation was conducted, based on a self-administered online questionnaire. This study investigated 244 bachelors in collective health from all over Brazil, graduates until 2018, with the aim of understanding how their professional insertion has been taking place, what are the main socioeconomic characteristics, their areas of work, salary range, employment status and other aspects of the profile of the graduate inserted in the labor market. To produce the data, the sanitarians answered a self-administered questionnaire, electronically. The data analysis shows that 47% of the total (244) of graduates interviewed are professionally inserted, within their area of training. The profile of the sanitarian is mostly female (76%) between 26 and 30 years old (49%), white (42.6%) and single (68.6%), with complete high school education and Catholic (31%). The most occupied area of work is health management. The individual income of graduates varies mostly from 2 to 3 minimum wages.