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This wide-ranging study reviews the state of public health
worldwide and presents informed recommendations for real-world
solutions. Identifying the most urgent challenges in the field,
from better understanding the causes of acute diseases and chronic
conditions to reducing health inequities, it reports on
cost-effective, science-based, ethically sound interventions.
Chapters demonstrate bedrock skills essential to developing best
practices, including flexible thinking for entrenched problems,
conducting health impact assessments, and working with
decision-makers. From these current findings come long-term
practice and policy goals for preventing disease, promoting health,
and improving quality of life, both locally and globally. A
sampling of the topics covered: * Health trends of communicable
diseases. * Epidemiology of cancer and principles of prevention. *
Respiratory diseases and health disorders related to indoor and
outdoor air pollution. * Public health gerontology and active
aging. * Migrant and ethnic minority health. * Public health
genomics. A Systematic Review of Key Issues in Public Health offers
graduate students in the discipline a firm grasp on the field as it
presently stands, and a clear set of directions for its potential
future.
This wide-ranging study reviews the state of public health
worldwide and presents informed recommendations for real-world
solutions. Identifying the most urgent challenges in the field,
from better understanding the causes of acute diseases and chronic
conditions to reducing health inequities, it reports on
cost-effective, science-based, ethically sound interventions.
Chapters demonstrate bedrock skills essential to developing best
practices, including flexible thinking for entrenched problems,
conducting health impact assessments, and working with
decision-makers. From these current findings come long-term
practice and policy goals for preventing disease, promoting health,
and improving quality of life, both locally and globally. A
sampling of the topics covered: * Health trends of communicable
diseases. * Epidemiology of cancer and principles of prevention. *
Respiratory diseases and health disorders related to indoor and
outdoor air pollution. * Public health gerontology and active
aging. * Migrant and ethnic minority health. * Public health
genomics. A Systematic Review of Key Issues in Public Health offers
graduate students in the discipline a firm grasp on the field as it
presently stands, and a clear set of directions for its potential
future.
Practitioners are increasingly adopting a personalised medicine
approach to individually tailored patient care, especially disease
diagnosis and treatment with the use of biomarkers. However,
development and implementation of such approaches to chronic
disease prevention need further investigation and concerted efforts
for proper use in healthcare systems. This book provides
high-quality, multidisciplinary knowledge from research in
personalised medicine, specifically personalised prevention of
chronic disease. It addresses different perspectives of prevention
in the field, and is the outcome of a four-year work of the
Personalized prevention of Chronic Disease (PRECeDI) Consortium, a
multi-disciplinary and multi-professional team of experts. The
Consortium jointly agreed to document and address the five aspects
or domains of personalised medicine and prevention as individual
chapters: Identification of biomarkers for the prevention of
chronic disease Evaluation of predictive genomic applications
Ethico-legal and policy issues surrounding personalised medicine
Roles and responsibilities of stakeholders in informing healthy
individuals on their genome: a sociotechnical analysis
Identification of organisational models for the provision of
predictive genomic applications The book focuses on the
Consortium's recommendations that are derived from each of these
domains based on up-to-date evidence and research that the authors
write, follow, and systematically organise and report.
Personalisation of health care is, eventually, a driver of
innovation in research and healthcare systems. With this
SpringerBrief on Personalised Health Care: Fostering Precision
Medicine Advancements for Gaining Population Health Impact, the
Consortium provides further evidence of the clinical validity and
utility of personalised medicine with special emphasis on the
prevention of chronic diseases. The book is a useful resource for
policy makers, industry and healthcare professionals, scientists,
technology-sector professionals, investors, citizens, and private
companies that need proper advice to realise the potential of
personalised medicine.
A Quick Guide to Cancer Epidemiology is an ideal addition to
Springer Briefs in Cancer Research. The Brief provides core
concepts in cancer epidemiology and also gives a snapshot of the
epidemiology of seventeen human cancers. The Brief aims to
provide-with quantitative focus-estimates of the global burden of
neoplasms, of recent and likely future trends, distribution, causes
and strategies for prevention for major groups of cancers. Finally,
the Brief will give an overview of severals factors that cause
cancer including dietary factors, tobacco smoking, obesity and
alcohol consumption.
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