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About PHHS Block Grant

With an approximate $100 million annual budget, the Preventative Health and Health Services Block Grant allows states, American Indian tribes, and U.S. territories to address their own unique public health needs and challenges with innovative and community driven methods.

All the states, territories, and tribes aim to keep the Block Grant funding flexible to:

  • Address emerging health issues and gaps;
  • Decrease premature death and disabilities by focusing on the leading preventable risk factors;
  • Work to achieve health equity and eliminate health disparities by addressing the social determinants of health;
  • Support local programs to achieve healthy communities;
  • Monitor health status of the programs supported by block grant.

To achieve these aims PHHS Block Grant supports and targets:

 Clinical services
 Preventive screenings and services
 Essential health services
 Outbreak control
 Workforce training
 Program evaluation
 Public education
 Data surveillance
 Chronic disease
 Injury and violence prevention
 Infectious disease
 Environmental Health
 Community Fluoridation
 Tobacco
 Emergency Medical Response
 Advocacy and Policy Change
 
Success is achieved by:
  • Utilizing evidence based methods and interventions;
  • Reducing risk factors, such as poor nutritional choices, smoking, and the lack of physical activity;
  • Establishing policy, social, and environmental changes;
  • Leveraging other funds;
  • Continuing to monitor and re-evaluate.

 

 

 

Page last reviewed: October 28, 2008
Page last modified: October 28, 2008
Content source: National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

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