Summary
PIs: Andrew Reschovsky, PhD and Susan Zahner, DrPH, RN, FAAN
Funder: National Coordinating Center for Public Health Services & Systems Research and Practice-Based Research Networks Quick Strike Award, a program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation ($25,000)
The purpose of this study was to examine the impact of the “Great Recession” on local health department revenues and create a fiscal forecasting model to predict local health department revenues in Wisconsin from 2012-2014. Forecast model findings: 1) inflation adjusted revenues will decrease by $8M (4.7%) by 2014, 2) per capital real revenues will decrease by 6.6% between 2012-2014 due to population growth, 3) uncertainty exists of future federal funding supportive of local public health, and 4) local health department revenues will decrease by $4.4M if federal grants double their reductions in 2014.
Publication
- Forecasting the revenues of local public health departments
Reschovsky, A., & Zahner, S.J. (2013). Forecasting the revenues of local public health departments in the shadows of the “Great Recession.” Journal of Public Health Management and Practice. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1097/PHH0b013e31828ebf8c. (Publication)
Brief
- Predicting Wisconsin Local Health Departments Revenues
Predicting Wisconsin Local Health Departments Revenues, (2/25/2014), Lilia Fernandes, MSN, BSN, TEP-PH Intern, MPH Student, University of Wisconsin-Madison (Brief)
Presentation Slides
- Local health department financial practices and outcomes during times of economic challenge
Local health department financial practices and outcomes during times of economic challenge, 2011 PHSSR
Keeneland Conference, Lexington, Kentucky (4/2011) Susan Zahner, DrPH, RN, Senay Goitom, BA, and Andrew Reschovsky, PhD (Presentation Slides)