Governmental spending in public health varies widely across communities, raising
questions about how these differences may affect the availability of essential services and …

The purpose of this study was to assess the alignment of state and local health department
financing with the 10 essential public health service (10EPHS) categories and National …

The United States has a complex governmental public health system. Agencies at the
federal, state, and local levels all contribute to the protection and promotion of the …

Objectives. Although a growing body of evidence demonstrates that availability and quality
of essential public health services vary widely across communities, relatively little is known …

There is little evidence to demonstrate the impact on local health outcomes of spending that
occurs outside the health care sector. We leveraged novel data from the US Census Bureau …

Objective: Our objective was to estimate the gap between the costs for local health
jurisdictions (LHJs) to provide foundational public health services (FPHS) and actual …

Objective: In this article, we explore the importance of nonprofit hospitals' community benefit
dollars as a funding source for population health. Design: Hospitals' community benefit …

Afield of study for public health finance has never been adequately developed.
Consequently, very little is known about the relationships, types, and amount of finances that …

We integrated publicly available fiscal and budgetary data to assess historical and
prospective trends in public health system funding at the federal, state, and local levels in …

Objectives. To examine the extent of variation in public health agency spending levels
across communities and over time, and to identify institutional and community correlates of …