The population that is served in community health are of a wide variety of ages populations, ethnicities, educational backgrounds, and races.  A large portion of the population community health serves are those that fall below the poverty level and would qualify for a number of governmental programs such as food stamps, Medicaid, Medicare, social security, low-income housing, CHIP, WIC, and TANIF benefits.  These programs are government-funded (paid by the taxpayers). There is a rising number of uninsured due to a few things: