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Navigating the intersections of population health and precision medicine

Healthcare It News

Precision medicine is about matching the right drugs or treatments to the right people, based on a genetic or molecular understanding of their disease. Population health is about health of a population, aggregating data from thousands or even millions of people to provide a generic direction. Region Tag: Global Edition.

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The Many Factors That Make a Child’s Well-Being Build Our Adult Health – the Aspirational OECD Framework

Health Populi

” This re-look at children’s health data is aspirational because it is laying out how to best measure child well-being to set the bar higher for doing so. The second graphic connects the children’s data framework to adult social determinants of health (housing, social capital, work-life balance, etc.).

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WSJ Asserts Women Own This Summer and That The Economy Proves It. But Health Care? Not So Much.

Health Populi

I’m sharing that image with you here in Health Populi to set the stage for, of course, a discussion of WSJ’s data points through a health/care lens.

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Doing Less Can Be Doing More for Healthcare – the Biggest Takeaway From ASCO 2018

Health Populi

” A genetic test that costs $3,000 helps to identify women who could benefit from avoiding chemo. The source of the data is A HRQ, from a report published by the American Cancer Society and the Cancer Action Network in October 2017 ). The test is called the Oncotype DX Breast Recurrence Score.

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Potential of Implementing Polygenic Risk Scores in Healthcare Systems

HIT Consultant

These include aspects of your environment and behavior that are within your control, and others that are fixed, such as your genetics. This has led to a step-change in the way in which this source of data can be used to help identify those at greatest risk of disease.

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