ASSIGNMENT: Public Health Finance
Advertising campaigns that promote healthier lifestyles often cite the costs to society of various health conditions, such as the cost of childhood obesity in later diabetes rates and the costs of not vaccinating young women in later cancer rates. What is not always mentioned are the very real costs of offering public health programs, which are soaring despite a simultaneous trend in cutting budgets amidst economic woes. Public health administrators today are charged with doing more with less. Even funding sources such as the federal Prevention and Public Health Fund created by the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act have felt the brunt of severe cuts (Johnson, 2014).
You examine the financing of public health programs and strategies for "doing more with less." You also identify concepts related to public health financing.
Required Readings
Shi, L., & Johnson, J. A. (2014). Novick and Morrow's public health administration: Principles for population-based management (3rd ed.). Sudbury, MA: Jones & Bartlett Learning.
• Chapter 9, "Public Health Finance" (pp. 181-199)
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). (2018). Budgets, grants and funding.
Grants.gov. (n.d.). About Grants gov.
Johnson, T. D. (2014). Prevention and public health fund paying off in communities: Success threatened by cuts to fund.
Public Health Finance and Management. (n.d.).
Suarez, V., Lesneski, C., & Denison, D. (2011). Making the case for using financial indicators in local public health agencies. American Journal of Public Health, 101(3), 419-425.
Note: You will access this article from the Walden Library databases.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. (2014). Grants/funding.
Assignment: Doing More With Less
Public health organizations at the local, state or regional, and governmental levels provide services to and/or engage with many community members. This week, you explore how leaders and managers work within public health departments seek to fund all of the many programs and initiatives they provide, from immunizations to surveillance for communicable and infectious diseases to screenings and food safety and inspections. Leading and managing such responsibilities is no small feat, especially in an environment of fiscal scarcity.
Public health services, like most public services, are almost always provided within a financially constrained environment, one that is vulnerable to economic shifts. With limited funds come many choices: Focus on prevention or promotion? If cuts are needed, what should go first? Facilities improvements? Salaries? Personnel? Supplies? Programs themselves?
In the course text, Shi and Johnson (2014) define public health finance as "A field of study that examines the acquisition, utilization, and management of resources for the delivery of public health functions and the impact of these resources on population health and the public health system" (p. 181).
Thus, the skillset involved in obtaining funds (acquisition) is absolutely critical to public health leadership. Obtaining funds without the context around what funds are needed, why, and how funding will address specific community health problems is a hollow task, however. Public health leaders need to be well versed in budgeting, applying strategies for funding, and analyzing variations in public health funding. Fortunately, tools exist that aid in the process of determining funding and devising strategies for funding.
For this week's Assignment, review the budget worksheet provided in the Weekly Resources. In addition, in the media titled "Public Health Finance", reflect on the insights a finance director from the Howard County Health Department provides regarding challenges and strategies related to funding programs. ) I will attached this MEDIA down below)
With the budget worksheet in mind, review the Learning Resources. Research other resources providing information on funding public health initiatives. Access the national websites to search for funding for public health and other initiatives: Explore your state, local, and regional health-related funding organizations' websites. Research these organizations' targeted grant opportunities.
The Assignment:
Public health organizations at the local, state or regional, and governmental levels provide services to and/or engage with many community members. This week, you explore how leaders and managers work within public health departments seek to fund all of the many programs and initiatives they provide, from immunizations to surveillance for communicable and infectious diseases to screenings and food safety and inspections. Leading and managing such responsibilities is no small feat, especially in an environment of fiscal scarcity. Public health services, like most public services, are almost always provided within a financially constrained environment, one that is vulnerable to economic shifts. With limited funds come many choices: Focus on prevention or promotion? If cuts are needed, what should go first? Facilities improvements? Salaries? Personnel? Supplies? Programs themselves?
In the course text, Shi and Johnson (2014) define public health finance as "A field of study that examines the acquisition, utilization, and management of resources for the delivery of public health functions and the impact of these resources on population health and the public health system" (p. 181). Thus, the skillset involved in obtaining funds (acquisition) is absolutely critical to public health leadership. Obtaining funds without the context around what funds are needed, why, and how funding will address specific community health problems is a hollow task, however. Public health leaders need to be well versed in budgeting, applying strategies for funding, and analyzing variations in public health funding. Fortunately, tools exist that aid in the process of determining funding and devising strategies for funding.
For this Assignment, review the budget worksheet provided in the Weekly Resources. In addition, in the media titled "Public Health Finance" ( I attached the TRANSCRIPT, word with word) reflect on the insights a finance director from the Howard County Health Department provides regarding challenges and strategies related to funding programs.
With the budget worksheet in mind, review the Learning Resources. Research other resources providing information on funding public health initiatives. Access the national websites to search for funding for public health and other initiatives: Explore your state, local, and regional health-related funding organizations' websites. Research these organizations' targeted grant opportunities.
The Assignment:
Submit a 5-6 page paper, plus the budget worksheet appendix, to include the following sections:
1) Explain the basic principles and tools of budget and resource management (you can take this from ch 9 of the book I attached in here, PLEASE PARAPHRASE EVREYTHING, do not copy-paste!!!)
2) Describe two specific examples of principles and/or tools that relate to your selected public health project. You must support why you are using these tools and principles and describe how they will be used to address your selected public health leadership issue
3) Explain the funding issues related to your selected public health project, including whether these issues are long- or short-term, how urgent they are, and state which stakeholders might be most affected and why
4) Based on the Learning Resources and your research, as well as the information included in the budget worksheet, recommend some potential funding sources and explain why you recommend them. In your explanation, include variations in funding and how these variations influenced your decision making
5) Complete the provided budget worksheet indicating the funding opportunities and costs related to the chosen project and copy it into an appendix at the end of the paper.
Format your assignment according to the following formatting requirements:
1. The answer should be typed, double spaced, using Times New Roman font (size 12), with one-inch margins on all sides.
2. The response also include a cover page containing the title of the assignment, the student's name, the course title, and the date. The cover page is not included in the required page length.
3. Also Include a reference page. The Citations and references should follow APA format. The reference page is not included in the required page length.
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