The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted concern about the integrity of the US public health infrastructure. Federal, state, and local governments spend $93 billion annually on public health in the US, but ...

While utilization is undeniably part of the equation, prices—whether labeled explicitly or embedded in measures of intensity—remain central to understanding why US health spending levels are high and ...

(Washington) – New data from the World Health Organization (WHO) shows that many governments around the world did not meet public healthcare spending benchmarks amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Human ...

A 2012 Institute of Medicine report recommended that the Secretary of HHS set targets for life expectancy and per capita health (care) expenditure to bring the United States in line with the average ...

What do longer term trends in local government spending tell us about the government’s commitment to the prevention shift?