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Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant Funding Recommendations The Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant PHHSBG financially supports multiple existing programs and implements new programs if needed to aid in decreasing morbidity and mortality in fifty states two Native American tribes and eight United States territories The PHHSBG targets preventable risk factors infectious diseases chronic illnesses providing clinical services promoting environmental health raising health awareness among the public and much more Since its inception in 1981 the Centers for Disease and Prevention CDC receives this grant from the United States government annually This block grant achieves its objective via implementation evidence based interventions constant monitoring and evaluation of the programs assisted and focusing on the preventable risk factors such as nutrition tobacco smoking diet and exercise As of 2017 the funding for PHHSBG is distributed among myriad of causes The majority of the funding is spent on health care infrastructure 26 and educational and community based programs 20 The rest of the funding is divided among Nutrition injury prevention immunization and various other health topics The PHHSBG is a crucial stepping stone for various programs as it provides the financial footing to aid in evidence based interventions and health outcome changes With the help of PHHSBG funding there was 80 decrease in nosocomial infections in Hawaii by funding mandatory infection tracking and the Santee Sioux tribal reservations were provided with emergency services for the first time ever in the year 2012
