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Budget cuts and layoffs hit public health departments as federal Covid aid ends

HEALTHBEAT

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Local health department staffing grew by about 19% from 2019 to 2022, according to a report from the National Association of County and City Health Officials that studied 2,512 of the nation’s roughly 3,300 local departments. That same report explained that half of their revenue in 2022 came from federal sources.

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Black Americans Still Suffer Worse Health. Here’s Why There’s So Little Progress

KFF Health News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

“So much of what we see is the long tail of slavery and Jim Crow,” said Andrea Ducas , vice president of health policy at the Center for American Progress, a nonprofit think tank. Recent efforts to address health disparities have run headlong into racist policies still entrenched in health systems.

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Budget cuts and layoffs hit public health departments as federal Covid aid ends

Black Americans Still Suffer Worse Health. Here’s Why There’s So Little Progress

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