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This Viewpoint discusses 3 areas in need of progress regarding societal approaches to pandemics and other health threats: a renaissance in public health; robustness of primary health care; and resilience of individuals and communities, with higher levels of trust in government and society.

This Viewpoint discusses 3 types of systemic health inequity experienced by individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities—stigma, exclusion, and devaluation of worth; underrepresentation in population epidemiology and research; and inadequate access to care and social services—and suggests potential approaches to ameliorating inequities in each of these areas.

The authors of this Viewpoint argue that the focus on hospital readmission rates as a measure of quality during the past decade, although undoubtedly leading to some improvements in care, has had minimal demonstrable benefit and has even distracted clinicians and health system leaders from other crucial quality concerns.