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Article: Funding concerns lead to new focus on public health finance.(ON THE JOB: News for the public health profession)(Report)
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- The Nation's Health
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- September 1, 2007
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TO STRENGTHEN the nation's public health system and ensure its sustainability, a new movement is under way to advance the field of public health finance as a subfield within public health. Fueling the effort is a growing sense of urgency to increase the public health work force's understanding of funding and its impact on the public health system.
Within the public health work force, knowledge of the sources and uses of public health funding is minimal, the movement's organizers say, but dwindling resources, competing priorities for funding and an increased focus on accountability have created an immediate need to implement financial management practices in ...