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## The Use of the CDC Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant to Address Social Determinants of Health to Advance Health Equity Cassandra M Frazier et al. J Public Health Manag Pract. 2025 May-Jun.
**Objective:** State public health departments use federal funding to examine and address social determinants of health (SDOH) within their communities to improve health and advance health equity. Yet, most federal funding is categorical (ie, funding used for a specific program or narrow purpose), which can create barriers to addressing social and structural drivers of inequity.
The Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant (PHHS Block Grant) is a flexible funding mechanism that provides health departments the latitude to identify and fund initiatives that address local public health needs. It is unclear, however, to what extent health departments use this flexible resource to incorporate SDOH into their programs.
**Design:** Cross-sectional, descriptive analysis of state health department PHHS Block Grant program administrative data. **Setting:** This study examined PHHS Block Grant budgets and workplans for the federal Fiscal Year 2021 to assess whether state health departments aligned their grant-funded program with the national objectives associated with the Healthy People 2030 SDOH Framework.
**Participants:** Forty-seven states and the District of Columbia were included in this study. **Main outcome measures:** Percent of states that used PHHS Block Grant funds to address SDOH; proportion of funding allocated to address SDOH; percentage of programs that addressed SDOH. **Results:** Three-fourths (75%) of states allocated funds to 97 programs aligning with at least 1 Healthy People 2030 SDOH-related objective.
Fifty of the programs were fully or primarily funded by the PHHS Block Grant. Results also show that as the states' PHHS Block Grant funding level increased so did the percent of states that allocated funding toward SDOH programs. **Conclusion:** This study shows that state health departments are using the PHHS Block Grant to address SDOH, and that the grant plays an important funding role for these programs.
States are incorporating the grant into their funding strategies to address SDOH. ## Conflict of interest statement The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
Percent of States a that Allocated Preventive Health and Health Services (PHHS) Block Grant Funds to Programs that Align with Healthy People 2030 Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Objectives by FY21 Funding Level b a The analysis included 47 states and the District of Columbia (N = 48). The distribution of states is evenly spread across each funding level. There are unique 12 states in each funding level.
b PHHS Block Grant funding levels were determined by calculating the interquartile range for the total FY21 grant award amount.
Preventive Health and Health Services Block Grant Program FY 21 Funding Allocated to Healthy People 2030 Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Domains, in US Dollars Role of PHHS Block Grant as a Funding Source for HP-SDOH Programs Based on Percent of Total Number of Programs (_N_ = 97) and Percent of Total Funding Amount (_N_ = $33 436 954) a The funding role indicates whether the PHHS Block Grant serves as the only source of funding or supplement source of funding for the program and is categorized as: 1.
Minimal: less than 10% of program funding is from the PHHS Block Grant. 2. Partial: 10–49% of program funding is from the PHHS Block Grant.
3. Significant: 50–74% of program funding is from the PHHS Block Grant. 4.
Primary: 75–99% of program funding is from the PHHS Block Grant. 5. Only: 100% of program funding is from the PHHS Block Grant.
Programs Funded within Healthy People (HP) 2030 Social Determinants of Health (SDOH) Domain by Preventive Health and Health Services (PHHS) Block Grant FY 21 Funding Levels a a PHHS Block Grant funding levels were determined by calculating the interquartile range for the total FY21 grant award amount. * State Priorities and Needs: The Role of Block Grants. Balio CP, Mathis SM, Francisco MM, Meit M, Beatty KE.
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