Precision Medicine and Population Health

This biomedical infographic sample was designed on the base of the diagram on the webpage "Precision Medicine & Population Health" from the website of the Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences (DCCPS) of the National Cancer Institute. [cancercontrol.cancer.gov/research-emphasis/precision-medicine.html] "Precision medicine (PM) is a medical model that proposes the customization of healthcare, with medical decisions, treatments, practices, or products being tailored to the individual patient. In this model, diagnostic testing is often employed for selecting appropriate and optimal therapies based on the context of a patient’s genetic content or other molecular or cellular analysis. Tools employed in precision medicine can include molecular diagnostics, imaging, and analytics." [Precision medicine. Wikipedia] "Population health ... is an approach to health that aims to improve the health of an entire human population. ... A priority considered important in achieving the aim of Population Health is to reduce health inequities or disparities among different population groups due to, among other factors, the social determinants of health, SDOH. The SDOH include all the factors (social, environmental, cultural and physical) that the different populations are born into, grow up and function with throughout their lifetimes which potentially have a measurable impact on the health of human populations. The Population Health concept represents a change in the focus from the individual-level, characteristic of most mainstream medicine." [Population health. Wikipedia] The healthcare infographic example "Precision Medicine and Population Health" was designed using ConceptDraw PRO software extended with Biomedicine solution from Health area of ConceptDraw Solution Park.