Resumen de Catapulting the Chasm: Or How to Avoid Wasting a Perfectly Good Fiscal Disaster.

Leslie M. Beitsch, Georgeen Polyak, Marthe R. Gold, Steven M. Teutsch, Alina Baciu

• The nation once again is on the precipice of financial catastrophe, but have we overlooked public health? Juxtaposed against one another, the comparison of health care with public health-one largely over-utilized, expensive, and underperforming, the other responsible for eradicating diseases and providing safe food and water-cries out for thoughtful fiscal recalibration. We have examined the recent Institute of Medicine report on public health financing and made actionable recommendations for sustainable public health financing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]