Discovering Precision Health
- 저 자 : Minor
- 역 자 :
- 출판사 : Wiley
- ISBN(13) : 9781119672692
- 발행일 : 2020-03-05 / 판 / 288 페이지
- 상품코드 : 27498
- 적립금: 1,080원
- Predict, Prevent, and Cure to Advance Health and Well-Being
Description
Today we are on the brink of a much-needed transformative moment for health care.
The U.S. health care system is designed to be reactive instead of preventive. The result is diagnoses that are too
late and outcomes that are far worse than our level of spending should deliver. In recent years, U.S. life expectancy
has been declining.
Fundamental to realizing better health, and a more effective health care system, is advancing the disruptive thinking
that has spawned innovation in Silicon Valley and throughout the world. That`s exactly what Stanford Medicine has done
by proposing a new vision for health and health care. In Discovering Precision Health, Lloyd Minor and Matthew Rees
describe a holistic approach that will set health care on the right track: keep people healthy by preventing disease
before it starts and personalize the treatment of individuals precisely, based on their specific profile.
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With dex_x_scriptions of the pioneering work undertaken at Stanford Medicine, complemented by fascinating case studies
of innovations from entities including the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub, GRAIL, and Impossible Foods, Minor and Rees present
a dynamic vision for the future of individual health and health care.
You’ll see how tools from smartphone technology to genome sequencing to routine blood tests are helping avert illness
and promote health. And you`ll learn about the promising progress already underway in bringing greater precision to
the process of predicting, preventing, and treating a range of conditions, including allergies, mental illness, preterm
birth, cancer, stroke, and autism.
The book highlights how biomedical advances are dramatically improving our ability to treat and cure complex diseases,
while emphasizing the need to devote more attention to social, behavioral, and environmental factors that are often the
primary determinants of health.
Chapter 1 The State of U.S. Health and Health Care Delivery 15
Chapter 2 There’s More to “Health” Than Health Care 33
Chapter 3 The Innovation and Disruption Powering Progress in Health 43
Chapter 4 Fundamental, Discovery‐Focused Research: The Foundation of Biomedical Breakthroughs 111
Chapter 5 Peering into the Future: Leveraging The Powers of Prediction to Help Prevent Illness 147
Chapter 6 Prevention as a Pathway to Health and Wellness 177
Chapter 7 Curing Disease with More Precise Medical Therapies 207
Conclusion Achieving Precision Health: The Opportunities—and Challenges—Ahead 237
Notes 243
Index 259