04/12/2020

Ohio Near the Bottom of States List for per Person Public Health Spending

The reason for spending more

Before the COVID-19 outbreak, Gov. Mike DeWine put more money and focus on public health issues hammering Ohio — such as high rates of suicide, infant mortality, drug addiction and tobacco use — as the state ranked near the bottom for public health spending per person.

But sustaining or further increasing that funding will be a challenge as the economy staggers and state government braces for a drop in tax revenues.

“I’ve felt for a long time that we have not paid enough attention to public health. When I look at the problems that we face in Ohio, so many of the challenges that we face have to do with health issues. So I think (the coronavirus pandemic) is going to make us look really hard at that,” he said at one of his daily briefings on the crisis.

Please select this link to read the complete article from The Dayton Daily News.