TY - JOUR
T1 - Assessing the public health activity estimate from the national health expenditure accounts
T2 - Why public health expenditure definitions matter
AU - Leider, Jonathon P.
AU - Resnick, Beth A.
AU - Sensenig, Arthur L.
AU - Alfonso, Natalia
AU - Brady, Eoghan
AU - Colrick, Ian Patrick
AU - Bishai, David M.
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was funded by the de Beaumont Foundation.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2016 Aspen Publishers Inc.. All rights reserved.
PY - 2016/1/1
Y1 - 2016/1/1
N2 - The United States spends over $3 trillion on health and healthcare. Official estimates put governmental public health spending at less than 3% of all health spending nationally - $75.4 billion. However, even this relatively modest estimate may, in fact, be vastly overinflated. The project team engaged in manually recoding expenditure data used to create the national Public Health Activity estimate (PHAE). Teams of 2-3 researchers coded expenditure data based on a framework informed by the Foundational Public Health Services model and the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services definitions for public health spending. In 2013, Census data show that state governments spent approximately $63 billion on non-hospital health spending. Manual recoding suggests this figure, which is used in the construction of the national PHAE, includes about 40% on public health, 21% on Behavioral Health. 20% on Community Health Care, 8% on Disability-Related spending, 3% on Environmental Protection, and 8% on Other. These revised estimates are stable proportionately over the period data were available, 2000-2013. Thus, overall our analyses show the PHAE should be revised downward 50% or more. This has signfiicant implications for local, state, and federal policymakers when considering resource allocations for governmental public health.
AB - The United States spends over $3 trillion on health and healthcare. Official estimates put governmental public health spending at less than 3% of all health spending nationally - $75.4 billion. However, even this relatively modest estimate may, in fact, be vastly overinflated. The project team engaged in manually recoding expenditure data used to create the national Public Health Activity estimate (PHAE). Teams of 2-3 researchers coded expenditure data based on a framework informed by the Foundational Public Health Services model and the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services definitions for public health spending. In 2013, Census data show that state governments spent approximately $63 billion on non-hospital health spending. Manual recoding suggests this figure, which is used in the construction of the national PHAE, includes about 40% on public health, 21% on Behavioral Health. 20% on Community Health Care, 8% on Disability-Related spending, 3% on Environmental Protection, and 8% on Other. These revised estimates are stable proportionately over the period data were available, 2000-2013. Thus, overall our analyses show the PHAE should be revised downward 50% or more. This has signfiicant implications for local, state, and federal policymakers when considering resource allocations for governmental public health.
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M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85068845351
SN - 1078-6767
VL - 43
SP - 225
EP - 240
JO - Journal of Health Care Finance
JF - Journal of Health Care Finance
IS - 2
ER -