Inaccuracy of Official Estimates of Public Health Spending in the United States, 2000-2018

Objectives. To examine the accuracy of official estimates of governmental health spending in the United States. We coded approximately 2.7 million administrative spending records from 2000 to 2018 for public health activities according to a standardized Uniform Chart of Accounts produced by the Public Health Activities and Services Tracking project. The official US Public Health Activity estimate was recalculated using updated estimates from the data coding.


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