Societal Resilience Requires a Public Health Focus

John Halamka and Paul Cerrato, Mayo Clinic Platform, stress that public health in the U.S. has been underfunded for decades, with less than 3% of the $3.6 trillion health budget allocated to it. They argue that increasing investment in public health, particularly population health management and analytics, is crucial for future crisis management, drawing attention to the importance of variables such as social determinants of health and patient data.