Population health improvements can be achieved through work made possible by
government spending on health care, public health, and social services. The extent to which …

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

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 …

Objectives: Spending on public health and prevention strategies varies widely across states
and communities. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) authorized …

Differing trends in health spending by state underlie national spending trends. To shed light
on the complexities of health spending patterns among state residents, we present updated …

The conceptual importance of social services to health outcomes is well known and recent
empirical evidence has linked social services spending to better population health …

Objectives: Public health and social services spending have been shown to improve health
outcomes at the county level, although there are significant state and regional variations in …

As much as 30% of US health care spending in the United States does not improve
individual or population health. To a large extent this excess spending results from prices …

Although spending rates on health care and social services vary substantially across the
states, little is known about the possible association between variation in state-level health …

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 …