Open AccessCan Precision Medicine Reduce the Burden of Diabetes?
Author(s) -
Wylie Burke,
Susan Brown Trinidad,
David Schenck
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
ethnicity and disease
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.767
H-Index - 67
eISSN - 1945-0826
pISSN - 1049-510X
DOI - 10.18865/ed.29.s3.669
Subject(s) - precision medicine , health care , medicine , unintended consequences , alternative medicine , population health , medical care , population , gerontology , family medicine , environmental health , political science , pathology , law
Precision medicine is a new health care concept intended to hasten progress toward individualized treatment and, in so doing, to improve everyone’s opportunity to enjoy good health. Yet, this concept pays scant attention to opportunities for change in the social determinants that are the major drivers of health. Precision medicine research is likely to generate improvements in medical care but may have the unintended consequence of worsening existing disparities in health care access. For prevention, precision medicine emphasizes comprehensive risk prediction and individual efforts to accomplish risk reduction. The application of the precision medicine vision to type 2 diabetes, a growing threat to population health, fails to acknowledge collective responsibility for a health-promoting society.Ethn Dis. 2019;29(Suppl 3):669-674;doi:10.18865/ed.29.S3.669