
<oai_dc:dc xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd">
  <dc:title>COVID-19. HHS funds allocated to support disproportionately affected communities : report to congressional addressees</dc:title>
  <dc:title>HHS funds allocated to support disproportionately affected communities : report to congressional addressees</dc:title>
  <dc:subject>United States. Department of Health and Human Services</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>COVID-19 -- economics</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>Disaster Planning -- legislation &amp; jurisprudence</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>Government Regulation</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>Legislation, Medical</dc:subject>
  <dc:subject>Pandemics -- economics</dc:subject>
  <dc:description>Why GAO did this study. Between March 2020 and March 2021, six pandemic relief laws appropriated billions of dollars to HHS’s Public Health and Social Services Emergency Fund. This fund is used for HHS emergency preparedness and response activities, including addressing the health effects felt disproportionately among certain communities. The CARES Act includes a provision for GAO to report on its ongoing COVID-19 monitoring and oversight efforts. GAO was also asked to review how HHS allocated pandemic relief funds to support communities disproportionately affected by COVID19. This report describes (1) how much four HHS agencies allocated to support communities disproportionately affected by COVID-19; and (2) how a sample of states allocated selected funding from CDC to support disproportionately affected communities. GAO reviewed agency data and documentation, and interviewed agency officials from the four HHS agencies. GAO also reviewed documentation and interviewed health department officials from five states. The states—Arizona, Louisiana, Michigan, New Hampshire, and Washington—were selected to reflect variation in geography and racial and ethnic populations, among other characteristics. HHS provided technical comments on a draft of this report, which were incorporated as appropriate.</dc:description>
  <dc:publisher>Washington, DC : United States Government Accountability Office, January 2023</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>United States. Government Accountability Office, issuing body.</dc:contributor>
  <dc:type>Technical Report</dc:type>
  <dc:format>Text</dc:format>
  <dc:format>Illustrations</dc:format>
  <dc:format>1 online resource (1 PDF file (ii, 28 pages))</dc:format>
  <dc:identifier>nlm:nlmuid-9918589885506676-pdf</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>9918589885506676</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/9918589885506676</dc:identifier>
  <dc:language>English</dc:language>
  <dc:coverage>Arizona</dc:coverage>
  <dc:coverage>Louisiana</dc:coverage>
  <dc:coverage>Michigan</dc:coverage>
  <dc:coverage>New Hampshire</dc:coverage>
  <dc:coverage>Washington</dc:coverage>
  <dc:rights>The National Library of Medicine believes this item to be in the public domain. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0</dc:rights>
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