Revista nº 807

Ranchal-Sánchez et al. Progressive ageing of hospital working population Actualidad Médica · Número 807 · Mayo/Agosto 2019 Páginas 92 a 97 · 94 · brackets, except for staff aged over 65 as there are no workers in this final extreme age bracket. The working populations of each bracket increases progressively only to fall from 60 on, except for men in the 25 to 30 bracket, which is higher than the 31 to 35 age bracket. The contracting of the extremes and the predominance of the age brackets between 51 and 60 are particularly noteworthy. A total of 1,408 professionals from the 2017 study were nurses (1342 in the 2006 report). The femininity index for the working nursing population was 83.59% in 2017. This was higher than the 73.47% for the total hospital population. The index proposed to compare the young population with the adult population was 2.87% for nurses (20*100/696). Table 2 offers the qualitative, absolute and percentage data by age bracket and sex for the hospital nurses in 2017. Figure 2 shows the working nursing population pyramid for the hospital studied. The progressive increase up to the 46 to 50 age bracket stands out, with a drop off that is seen again in the final 61-65 bracket and the absence of nurses aged over 65. It is striking that the narrowing of the 51-55 age bracket is solely at the expense of women. Female nurses dominate in the 56 to 60 bracket, whilemen dominate the 51 to 55 bracket and figures for both sexes lower in the final age bracket (61 to 65) lower than in the immediately preceding bracket (56 to60). Thenegligible 0.14%of nurses agedunder 25 is also striking. Observing the evolution of the working population of the hospital over the last decade is also part of the main objective. To do so we have compared the data obtained in 2017 with those published in the 2006 annual report of the same hospital. According to the 2006 report, female nursing staff was also predominant at 27.72% followed by nursing assistant staff (20.54%), hospitality, laundry, services and AGE (years) Number of men: % of men Number of women % of women Total by section % by section <25 4 0.07% 15 0.28% 19 0.35% 25-30 117 2.15% 177 3.25% 294 5.39% 31-35 53 0.97% 204 3.74% 257 4.72% 36-40 109 2.00% 278 5.10% 387 7.10% 41-45 115 2.11% 399 7.32% 514 9.43% 46-50 196 3.60% 668 12.26% 864 15.85% 51-55 307 5.63% 905 16.61% 1212 22.24% 56-60 356 6.53% 877 16.09% 1233 22.62% 61-65 173 3.17% 477 8.75% 650 11.93% <65 16 0.29% 4 0.07% 20 0.37% Total 1446 26.53% 4004 73.47% 5450 100.00% Table 1. Quantitative distribution of hospital staff by age bracket and sex. AGE (years) Number of men: % of men Number of women % of women Total by age bracket % by age bracket <25 0 0.00% 2 0.14% 2 0.14% 25-30 9 0.64% 9 0.64% 18 1.28% 31-35 9 0.64% 64 4.55% 73 5.18% 36-40 17 1.21% 134 9.52% 151 10.72% 41-45 28 1.99% 175 12.43% 203 14.42% 46-50 47 3.34% 219 15.55% 266 18.89% 51-55 48 3.41% 198 14.06% 246 17.47% 56-60 47 3.34% 238 16.90% 285 20.24% 61-65 26 1.85% 138 9.80% 164 11.65% <65 0 0.00% 0 0.00% 0 0.00% Total 231 16.41% 1177 83.59% 1408 100.00% Table 2. Quantitative distribution of hospital nurses staff (nurses) by age and sex. Figure 1. Population pyramid according to age and sex from a southern Spain regional hospital. Figure 2. Nurses population pyramid according to age and sex from a southern Spain regional hospital.