Health and Human Services
4265 Department of Public Health

The California Department of Public Health (Public Health) is dedicated to optimizing the health and well-being of all Californians. Public Health achieves its mission through the following core activities:

  • Promoting healthy lifestyles for individuals and families in their communities and workplaces.
  • Preventing disease, disability, and premature death, and reducing or eliminating health disparities.
  • Protecting the public from unhealthy and unsafe environments.
  • Providing access to quality, population-based health services.
  • Preparing for and responding to public health emergencies. More.....

MAJOR PROGRAM CHANGES Back to Top
    • Public Health Investments - The Budget includes $12.5 million General Fund for the following one-time public health expenditures: sexually transmitted disease prevention ($5 million); drug overdose prevention ($3 million); early detection and diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease ($2.5 million); hepatitis B and C prevention and treatment ($1.4 million); and biomonitoring ($600,000). The Budget also includes ongoing funding of $3.2 million General Fund for the California Children's Dental Disease Prevention Program and $1 million General Fund in 2016-17 and $2 million ongoing for enforcement activities related to recently enacted tobacco legislation (Chapter 7, Statutes of 2016 [SBx2 5] and Chapter 8, Statutes of 2016 [SBx2 7]).
PROGRAMS Back to Top
The following table presents total proposed budget year positions and expenditures for each budgeted program area. These expenditures include all funding sources that support the state agency's programs.
Code Program
 Enacted
2016-17*
Positions
Dollars
4040010 Emergency Preparedness
109.3
$87,508
4045010 Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion
433.0
316,183
4045023 Infectious Diseases
334.0
538,280
4045032 Family Health
424.6
1,648,277
4045041 Health Statistics and Informatics
148.5
28,314
4045050 County Health Services
3.9
4,101
4045059 Environmental Health
481.7
98,565
4050010 Health Facilities
1,196.6
266,286
4050019 Laboratory Field Services
81.9
13,405
9900100 Administration
254.7
43,567
9900200 Administration - Distributed
-
-43,568
Totals, Positions and Expenditures (excluding Infrastructure)
3,468.2
$3,000,918
 
 Infrastructure Expenditures
-
3,799
Totals, Positions and All Expenditures
3,468.2
$3,004,717

Refer to the Program Descriptions for a description of programs operated by this state agency.

Refer to the 3-Yr Expenditures & Positions for expenditures, positions, and funding detail.

Refer to the Infrastructure Overview for infrastructure expenditure detail.
PRINTABLE BUDGET DOCUMENTS Back to Top
The following identifies budget documents for this state agency that are available in a printable (pdf) format.

 Entire Department of Public Health Budget (pdf * - 145K) in pdf format.
This document provides a printable format (pdf) of all budget information for this state agency. Note: Along with other information, this document includes the documents listed below.

 Fund Condition Statements ONLY (pdf * - 65K)
This document provides a printable format (pdf) of only the fund condition statements for each fund administered by this state agency.

 Detail of Appropriations and Adjustments ONLY (pdf * - 34K)
This document provides a printable format (pdf) of only the detail of appropriations and adjustments for this state agency.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Back to Top
Legal Citations and Authority
Includes the legal citations (state statutes, federal statutes, and court orders) for operation of department programs and activities.