HCFO-funded research led by Glen Mays, Ph.D., M.P.H. of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, was highlighted on the website of Medscape Medical News following recent publication [1] in Health Affairs. The article, "Increased Public Health Spending Decreases Mortality [2]," details Mays's finding that increased spending on public health results in measurable decreases in death from preventable causes. This study was funded through a public health special solicitation through the HCFO program in 2005.
Links:
[1] http://www.hcfo.org/publications/evidence-links-increases-public-health-spending-declines-preventable-deaths
[2] http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/746886
[3] http://www.hcfo.org/topics/public-health-systems