From the PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER:
Pennsylvania and New Jersey spend fewer federal dollars per person on disease and injury prevention than any other states in the Northeast, and both rank near the bottom nationwide, according to an analysis of public-health funding released yesterday…
“Public health departments are responsible for finding ways to address the systemic reasons why some communities are healthier than others, and for developing policies and programs to remove obstacles that get in the way of making health choices possible,” Jeffrey Levi, executive director of the Trust for America’s Health, said in a statement…
“The result of this chronic underfunding is that millions of Americans are needlessly suffering from preventable diseases, health-care costs have skyrocketed, and our workforce is not as healthy as it needs to be to compete with the rest of the world,” yesterday’s report said…
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