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Tracking our investments in public health: what have we learned?

A voluntary public health expenditures reporting system existed in the United States for over 25 years, tracking and reporting trends in health department expenditures, revenue streams, functions, and programs. Today, no such system exists and no data are available to help us understand how and wher...

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Published in:Journal of Public Health Management & Practice Vol. 10; no. 5; pp. 383 - 393
Main Authors: Barry M, Bialek R
Format: Journal Article
Published: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Sep/Oct2004
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost
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          Barry M
          Bialek R
        affil: Deputy Director, the American College of Preventive Medicine, Washington, DC
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          Accountability Methods
          Financial Management History
          Health Resource Allocation
          Information Management
          Performance Measurement Systems History
          Public Health Administration Economics
          Public Health Trends
          State Health Plans Economics
          Clinical Indicators
          Database Quality
          Decision Making, Organizational
          Financing, Government
          Government Agencies
          Health and Welfare Planning
          Policy Making
          Public Health Administration History
      ab: A voluntary public health expenditures reporting system existed in the United States for over 25 years, tracking and reporting trends in health department expenditures, revenue streams, functions, and programs. Today, no such system exists and no data are available to help us understand how and where public health dollars are being spent and the trends during good and bad economic times. This article discusses the history of and lessons learned from the former public health expenditures reporting system and more recent demonstration projects that experimented with reporting by essential public health services. The article also explores how what we have learned can be used for developing and implementing a system today to meet public health and public policy needs.
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    language: English
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