Here are six key findings from the study, published in the American Journal of Public Health.
- Public health expenditures in 1960 were $39 per capita when adjusted for inflation, and accounted for 1.36 percent of total U.S. health expenditures.
- By 2002, public health expenditures accounted for 3.18 percent of total health expenditures.
- That proportion dropped to 2.65 percent in 2014, or $255 per capita.
- The Affordable Care Act originally planned to boost public health funding by $15 billion.
- In 2012, a law cut $6.25 billion from this pledge and it has since been cut down more.
- The 2015 fiscal year originally allotted $2 billion for public health, but appropriations are less than half, according to the report.
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