title: Follow the money: funding streams and public health nursing.
abstract: The increasing reliance of health departments on income generated by billing for individual clinical services impacts the role and outlook of public health nurses. This commentary discusses some of the reasons for the emergency of that finance trend and the current shifts in financing personal care, with observations on the challenges facing nurses in public health agencies today.
authors: K M
authors: KM
authors: Gebbie
mesh_terms: D003153:Community Health Services / Q000191:economics; D005380:Financing, Government; D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000191:economics; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000191:economics; D006801:Humans; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000191:economics; D011637:Public Health Nursing / Q000191:economics*; D014481:United States