273010 IOM: Committee on public health strategies to improve health

Thursday, June 28, 2012 : 8:50 AM - 9:10 AM

David Fleming, MD , Seattle/King County Department of Public Health, Seattle, WA
     
The report For the Public's Health: Investing in a Healthier Future offers recommendations for transforming the dysfunctional ways in which public health funding is allocated and used, and for identifying an adequate, stable, and sustainable source of funding for the nation's public health departments. This is a two-pronged solution to strengthening the US public health enterprise to improve the nation's health, currently lagging behind the average among US peers, and to ensure better value for the nation's health investments.

Learning Areas:
Public health or related laws, regulations, standards, or guidelines
Public health or related public policy

Learning Objectives:
1. Describe the report's explanation for the nation's lagging health 2. List three recommendations from the IOM report and the rationale that underpins them 3. Convey one of the report's key messages on the role of public health in the delivery of clinical care

Presenting author's disclosure statement:

Qualified on the content I am responsible for because: I am qualified to be a presenter on the contents of my session because I have been a committee member involved in the research and writing of the report that I will be speaking about.
Any relevant financial relationships? No

I agree to comply with the American Public Health Association Conflict of Interest and Commercial Support Guidelines, and to disclose to the participants any off-label or experimental uses of a commercial product or service discussed in my presentation.

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