Public Health in the Precision-Medicine Era

The burgeoning precision-medicine agenda focuses on detecting and curing disease at the individual level, but there are multiple contributors to the production of population health, and clinical intervention cannot remedy health inequities. That clinical medicine has contributed enormously to our ab...

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Published in:The New England journal of medicine Vol. 373; no. 6; pp. 499 - 501
Main Authors: Bayer, Ronald, Galea, Sandro
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: United States Massachusetts Medical Society 06.08.2015
Subjects:
Clinical medicine
Health Services Accessibility
Health Status Disparities
Humans
Life Expectancy
National Institutes of Health (U.S.)
Obama, Barack
Population
Precision Medicine
Public Health
Social Class
United States
Varmus, Harold E
United States
United States > US
ISSN:0028-4793, 1533-4406, 1533-4406
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Summary:The burgeoning precision-medicine agenda focuses on detecting and curing disease at the individual level, but there are multiple contributors to the production of population health, and clinical intervention cannot remedy health inequities. That clinical medicine has contributed enormously to our ability to treat and cure sick people is beyond contention. But whether and to what extent medical care has transformed morbidity and mortality patterns at a population level and what contribution, if any, it has made to the well-being and life expectancy of the least-advantaged people have been matters of contention for more than a century. This debate has taken on renewed importance as the scientific leadership at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), National Academy of Medicine, and U.S. universities have taken up the challenge of personalized or precision medicine. It . . .
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ISSN:0028-4793
1533-4406
1533-4406
DOI:10.1056/NEJMp1506241