Department of Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia (Dr Buehler); Management Programs, College of Business, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida (Dr Bernet); and Office of Prevention Through Healthcare, Office of the Associate Director for Policy, Office of the Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia (Dr Ogden).
Correspondence: James W. Buehler, MD, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd, MS-E97, Atlanta, GA 30333 ([email protected]).
This project was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Health Care Financing & Organization program on Public Health Systems Research, Project ID 63615. The authors thank David Holtgrave, PhD, Chair of the Department of Health, Behavior, & Society, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, for his thoughtful contributions to the planning of this project; Lance Waller, PhD, Chair of the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at the Rollins School of Public Health at Emory University for his assessment of statistical methods for assessing the confidence interval for the Gini index; and Cynthia Zeldin, MA, and Kenneth Gustely, MBA, for their assistance in compiling and documenting project data sources.
Disclosure: The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
