In your opinion, what is the biggest advantage and biggest disadvantage of public health spending?

In your opinion, what is the biggest advantage and biggest disadvantage of public health spending? Please include a discussion of the financial impact. Be sure to provide support for your opinion.

Expectations: 1 page, 3 references from required reading.

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REQUIRED READING

Read Chapter 5 of the following text:
Wing, K. R., & Gilbert, B. (2007). The law and the public’s health. Chicago, IL: Health Administration Press.

Anderson Smith, T., Minyard, K. J., Parker, C. A., Ferencik Van Valkenburg, R., & Shoemaker, J. A. (2007). From theory to practice: What drives the core business of public health? Journal of Public Health Management Practice, 13(2), 169–172. Retrieved from http://journals.lww.com/jphmp/Fulltext/2007/03000/From_Theory_to_Practice__What_Drives_the_Core.13.aspx#

Chernew, M. (2011). Health care spending growth: Can we avoid fiscal Armageddon? Inquiry, 47(4), 285-95. Retrieved from the Trident Online Library.

Frick, K., & Ma, S. (2009). Overcoming challenges for the economic evaluation of investments in children’s health. Academic Pediatrics, 9(3), 136-7.

Kinner, K., & Pellegrini, C. (2009). Expenditures for public health: Assessing historical and prospective trends. American Journal of Public Health, 99(10), 1780-1791.

Lorenzoni, L., Belloni, A., & Sassi, F. (2014). Health-care expenditure and health policy in the USA versus other high-spending OECD countries. The Lancet, 384(9937), 83-92. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736 (14)60571-7. Retrieved from the Trident Online Library.

Mays, G. P., McHugh, M. C., Shim, K., Perry, N., Lenaway, D., Halverson, P. K., & Moonesinghe, R. (2006). Institutional and economic determinants of public health system performance. American Journal of Public Health 96(3), 523.

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