Precision medicine, imprecision medicine; two ends of a biological telescope?
Journal Title: The Journal of Health Design - Year 2017, Vol 2, Issue 1
Abstract
Epidemiology may be used to project information derived from select populations into both “evidence-based” individual care and patient-centred health policy. An institutionalised perception appears to exist that regardless of the degree of individual and public “buy-in”, it is simply never enough. On the other hand, a natural ceiling in personal and public “buy-in” may exist because the daily expression of living embodies a continuous personal stream of habituating threat and risk. Now, for the first time in human history a personalised genetic profile may provide a truly precise and patient-centric approach to health care that leads to individually specific awareness of prevention and personal risk mitigation. In the fullness of time, it may further the development of an intellectually honest and potentially more effective address of the individual health-span gamble that many seem instinctively willing to play from a population based, “one-shoe-fits-all” approach.
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Christopher McGrath
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- DOI 10.21853/JHD.2017.15
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