title: Expenditures for public health: assessing historical and prospective trends.
abstract: 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 relation to the recommended objectives outlined in the Institute of Medicine's definitive 2002 report. Although historical growth rates for public health expenditures at all levels were competitive with other major funding objects (requested or funded budget items), outlays for health care services and medical research dwarfed public health spending in absolute amounts. Competition for scarce discretionary resources, competing policy priorities, and protracted fiscal pressures will make it difficult for public health systems to achieve the recommended objectives.
authors.affiliation: Policy and Advocacy Unit, CARE, Washington, DC, USA.
authors.forename: Kyle
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kinner
authors.forename: Cindy
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Pellegrini
mesh_terms: D005102:Health Expenditures / Q000266:history / Q000639:trends; D006302:Health Services Research / Q000191:economics* / Q000266:history / Q000639:trends; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D009111:Local Government; D011314:Preventive Health Services / Q000191:economics; D011634:Public Health / Q000191:economics* / Q000266:history / Q000639:trends; D011640:Public Policy; D013219:State Government; D014481:United States
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