The impact of genetics and genomics on public health

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作者
Brand, Angela [1 ]
Brand, Helmut [2 ]
den Baeumen, Tobias Schulte [1 ]
机构
[1] Univ Appl Sci, German Ctr Publ Hlth Genom, D-33615 Bielefeld, Germany
[2] Inst Publ Hlth Northrthine Westphalia, Bielefeld, Germany
关键词
public health genomics; genetics; genomics and population health; prevention; health policy; inequalities in health and social exclusion; public health ethics;
D O I
10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201942
中图分类号
Q5 [生物化学]; Q7 [分子生物学];
学科分类号
071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
Public health practice has to date concerned itself with environmental or social determinants of health and disease and has paid scant attention to genomic variations within the population. The advances brought about by genomics are changing these perceptions. In the long run, this knowledge will enable health promotion messages and disease prevention programmes to be specifically directed at susceptible individuals and families, or at subgroups of the population, based on their genomic risk profile. As the controversial discourse in science and health politics shows, the integration of genomics into public health research, policy and practice is one of the major challenges that our health-care system is currently facing.
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