BioMed Research International

Screening for Complex Diseases and Personalized Health Care


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1Section of Hygiene, Institute of Public Health, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome, Italy

2Institute for Translational Epidemiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA

3Department of Public Health and Infectious Diseases, Rome, Italy


Screening for Complex Diseases and Personalized Health Care

Description

Personalized healthcare can be defined as a customization of the medical provision that accommodates individual differences in all stages in the process, from prevention to diagnosis and treatment to posttreatment followup. While the term personalized medicine has a broader meaning and it comes from the explosion of information arising from genome sequencing, the term personalized healthcare refers more to the potential for customization in the provision of healthcare to the citizen.

Despite the fast moving human genome discoveries in a wide proportion of diseases having large public health impact, the promise of personalized healthcare has far lagged behind. In a time of limited resources, the multilevel interventions required for such integration might not be perceived as a priority from policy makers. Additionally, the evidence on the extent to which genomic information has provided measurable population health benefits and actionable intelligence to citizens is limited. Lastly, the march of technological advances has accelerated faster than progresses of the concurrent clinical and public health models. Public health practitioners are now called to make efforts not only to demonstrate when genomics actually improves health but also to create the infrastructure needed to drive health benefits in the future. It is also important to strengthen the evidence base supporting traditional screening strategies for complex diseases, given the increasing burden of chronic diseases on populations.

With this special issue, we particularly take an interest in manuscripts that report on the issues surrounding the determinants of (genetic) screening for complex diseases and on the policy and societal factors affecting the implementation of a personalized health care approach. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Systematic reviews in the fields of personalized health care and screening for complex diseases
  • Public health genomics
  • The prevalence and determinant of (genetic) tests in the population
  • The perception of genetic tests from citizens/physicians
  • The Direct-to-Consumers tests (legislation/perception, etc.)
  • The medical education in the field of public health genomics

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Articles

  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2015
  • - Article ID 135931
  • - Editorial

Screening for Complex Diseases and Personalized Health Care

Stefania Boccia | Paolo Boffetta | Paolo Villari
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2015
  • - Article ID 179867
  • - Research Article

The Effect of CYP, GST, and SULT Polymorphisms and Their Interaction with Smoking on the Risk of Hepatocellular Carcinoma

Stefania Boccia | Luca Miele | ... | Antonio Grieco
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2014
  • - Article ID 418416
  • - Research Article

Survey on Knowledge, Attitudes, and Training Needs of Italian Residents on Genetic Tests for Hereditary Breast and Colorectal Cancer

Nikola Panic | Emanuele Leoncini | ... | Stefania Boccia
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2014
  • - Article ID 742620
  • - Research Article

Tumor Necrosis Factor-Alpha −308 G>A Polymorphism, Adherence to Mediterranean Diet, and Risk of Overweight/Obesity in Young Women

Martina Barchitta | Annalisa Quattrocchi | ... | Antonella Agodi
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2014
  • - Article ID 304602
  • - Research Article

A Large Cross-Sectional Survey Investigating the Knowledge of Cervical Cancer Risk Aetiology and the Predictors of the Adherence to Cervical Cancer Screening Related to Mass Media Campaign

Corrado De Vito | Claudio Angeloni | ... | Stefania Boccia
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2014
  • - Article ID 608104
  • - Research Article

A Pilot Study Evaluating the Contribution of SLC19A1 (RFC-1) 80G>A Polymorphism to Alzheimer’s Disease in Italian Caucasians

Fabio Coppedè | Pierpaola Tannorella | ... | Lucia Migliore
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