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Assessing state public health funding using State Health Compare
Assessing state public health funding using State Health Compare
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Author(s):
- Au-Yeung, Carolin M., author
- Contributor(s):
- State Health Access Data Assistance Center (Minn.) issuing body.
- Publication:
- [Minneapolis, Minnesota] : State Health Access Data Assistance Center, June 2021
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Financing, Government
Health Expenditures -- trends
Public Health -- economics
State Government
United States - Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Public health activities in the United States are critical to disease prevention, health promotion, environmental health monitoring, and emergency preparedness. Despite this, activities have been persistently underfunded, according to a new analysis from Trust for America’s Health (TFAH), which tracks and monitors public health funding across the country. Public health activities are funded at both the federal and state levels, but most public health funding in the U.S. is provided by state governments from their own revenues (i.e., state-generated revenue from taxes, fees, third-party reimbursements, etc.). Efforts to monitor state public health funding play an important role in an environment of scarce public health resources. Information about state public health funding levels relative both to one another and to trends in state public health funding over time can be important data points for protecting public health funding during state budget discussions, where this funding is often at risk because it is generally discretionary. Additionally, data about state public health funding levels--taken together with other data such as the relative performance of each state on other public health indicators (e.g., disease prevalence) and the comparative reliance of each state on federal funding--indicate which states are best situated to absorb a potential decrease in federal support from agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). These data also indicate which states would be hit hardest by a potential federal funding decrease (in the absence of action to increase state-level funding) and how limited resources can be most effectively distributed among the states.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-ND license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (3 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 9918383088806676 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918383088806676