Public Health Expenditures


  • Review the data in the charts on Public Health Expenditures

  • Identify the most important implications of these trends and discuss these in your response to Exercise 6.

  • Data Sources and Notes:

    • Data compiled from Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, National Health Accounts (NHA) 1960-2000. The NHA breaks down health spending by source of funding and by activity and type of service provided.

    • Charts 1 and 4: Adjusted total public health expenditures include expenditures at both the federal and state/local level. State/local public health expenditures are adjusted in an attempt to include only funding for essential (that is, population-based) public health services and to exclude personal health care services.

    • Chart 2: Adjusted total public health spending (federal plus adjusted state/local) is shown as a percentage of total national health spending.

    • Charts 3 and 5: Inflation-adjusted per capita spending on public health (federal plus adjusted state/local, federal, adjusted state/local) are in year 2000 dollars, adjusted using the 2000 gross domestic product (GDP) deflator. US population estimates are from the US Bureau of the Census.

    • Chart 6: Federal public health spending as a percentage of adjusted total public health spending (federal plus adjusted state/local)

    • Chart 7: Federal public health expenditures are shown as a percentage of total federal health spending.


--B.Turnock 2/18/03