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Appendix E: Funding Diagram for Public Health
Pages 253-256

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... Appendix E Funding Diagram for Public Health 253
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... Both the state and local health departments receive some funding from private groups and receive fees, fines, and, in some cases, Medicaid and Medicare dollars. The left diagram does not communicate the expansive, complicated, and intertwining nature of the delivery of public health, as the right diagram begins to illustrate.
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... These other organizations pay local health departments, other local government agencies, and other local organizations (nongovernment organizations and community-based organizations) to provide valuable public health services.
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