Discussion: Public Health Spending
Discussion: Public Health Spending
In your opinion, what is the biggest advantage and biggest disadvantage of public health spending? Please include a discussion in the financial impact. Be sure to provide support for your opinion.
Required Reading
Braendle, T., & Colombier, C. (2016). What drives public health care expenditure growth? Evidence from Swiss cantons, 1970–2012. Health Policy, 120(9), 1051-1060. Available in the Trident Online Library.
Committee on Public Health Strategies to Improve Health. (2012). Reforming public health and its financing. Institute of Medicine. Retrieved from the NCBI website at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK201015/
Lorenzoni, L., Belloni, A., & Sassi, F. (2014). Health-care expenditure and health policy in the USA versus other high-spending OECD countries. The Lancet, 384(9937), 83-92. Available in the Trident Online Library.
Marton, J., Sung, J., & Honore, P. (2015). Does more public health spending buy better health? Health Services Research and Managerial Epidemiology. Available in the Trident Online Library.
Tran, L. D., Zimmerman, F. J., & Fielding, J. E. (2017). Public health and the economy could be served by reallocating medical expenditures to social programs. SSM – Population Health, 3, 185-191. Available in the Trident Online Library.
Sessions, S. Y. (2012). Financing state and local public health departments: A problem of chronic illness. Institute of Medicine. Retrieved from the NCBI website at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK201021/
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