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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.
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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.
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Chart 2:
Adjusted total public health spending (federal plus adjusted
state/local) is shown as a percentage of total national health
spending.
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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.
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Chart 6: Federal
public health spending as a percentage of adjusted total
public health spending (federal plus adjusted state/local)
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Chart 7:
Federal public health expenditures are shown as a percentage
of total federal health spending.