Overview

An article published in Health Service Research entitled, "Impact of State Public Health Spending on Disease Incidence in the United States from 1980 to 2009," uses state-level public health spending data from The Census Bureau to better understand the relationship of state-level spending by public health departments and the incidence of vaccine preventable diseases: mumps, pertussis, and rubella. Findings indicate that there is a negative relationship between public health spending and the incidence of vaccine preventable diseases: mumps and rubella. To read the article in full, click here.  

DISCLAIMER: The authors received financial support from the de Beaumont Foundation supporting this work. The authors are not aware of any affiliations, memberships, funding, or financial holdings that might be perceived as affecting the objectivity of this review. While this publication was funded by the de Beaumont Foundation, it is shared on this website because the findings are related to their grant funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and administered by the Systems for Action National Signature Research Program.