Abstract
Paying for public health services is and remains a consistent concern among local health departments. The data on the impact of the 2008 recession on public health nationally demonstrated the problems with maintaining staff and services in the face of a declining resource base. This capacity to provide funding for provision of public health services has prompted a number of mechanisms to provide support for dealing with revenue shortfalls. The papers in this issue of Frontiers in PHSSR continue to echo that concern of how best to deal with loss of funding, measuring it and developing tools to ascertain the impact of service cost.
Recommended Citation
Scutchfield FD. The cost of public health services. Front Public Health Serv Sys Res 2016; 5(2):1–4. DOI: 10.13023/FPHSSR.0502.01.
