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North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia ranked 25th through 27th in a national survey released March 10 that rated federal health funding per person by state.

According to the report “Shortchanging America’s Health: A State-By-State Look at How Federal Public Health Dollars are Spent,” North Carolina ranked 25th with $19 a person in annual funding from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for fiscal year 2008. South Carolina, meanwhile, was 26th at $18.69, and Georgia placed 27th with $18.68 a person. The average funding is $17.60.

The report was prepared by Trust for America’s Health and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and can be viewed online at www.healthyamericans.org.

Alaska, at $52.78, received the most funding, while Indiana got the least at $12.74.

On average, states in the Southern U.S. received $18.43 a person, which trailed the West ($23.94) and Northeast ($22.49) in funding average.