title: The quest for an accurate accounting of public health expenditures.
abstract: This article describes one effort to develop management tools that will help public health administrators and policy makers implement comprehensive public health strategies. It recounts the ongoing development of a methodology through which the Essential Public Health Services can be related to public health budgets, appropriations, and expenditures. Through three pilot projects involving: (1) nine state health agencies, (2) three local health agencies, and (3) all local jurisdictions and the state health agency in one state, a workable methodology for identifying public expenditures for comprehensive public health programming has been identified.
authors.affiliation: University of Iowa College of Public Health, Iowa City, USA.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Atchison
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Barry
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kanarek
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Gebbie
mesh_terms: D000066:Accounting / Q000379:methods; D002017:Budgets; D005102:Health Expenditures; D006292:Health Priorities; D006801:Humans; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011635:Public Health Administration / Q000191:economics*; D015980:Public Health Practice / Q000191:economics* / Q000592:standards; D014481:United States