Implications: Human Health and Physical Potential
| Autor: | Robert G. Urban, Amanda Arnold, Piotr Grodzinski |
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| Rok vydání: | 2013 |
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Sociology of scientific knowledge
business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Disease Risk analysis (engineering) Health care Personalized medicine Convergence (relationship) InformationSystems_MISCELLANEOUS Public engagement business Set (psychology) Psychology Function (engineering) media_common |
| Zdroj: | Science Policy Reports ISBN: 9783319022031 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-319-02204-8_5 |
| Popis: | Medical advances today reflect a particularly intricate set of interactions and “convergences” in scientific knowledge and technological capabilities that promise improved human healthcare worldwide. This chapter addresses trends towards accomplishing this. They include, among other means, “precision”, individualized medicine; novel means of diagnosis, prevention, and treatment of disease; improved individual monitoring and record-keeping that can be extrapolated to inform community medical analysis and improve integration of data; major advances in regenerative medicine and prosthetics; and overall, reduction in costs of and improvement in access to quality healthcare. The convergences affecting convergence-based medicine include a focus on wellness as a function of education, healthy lifestyles, mental/neural health, societal interactions, the environments in which people live and work, and active aging. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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