Universal health care, genomic medicine and Thailand: investing in today and tomorrow
| Autor: | Abdallah S. Daar, Peter Singer, Billie-Jo Hardy, Béatrice Séguin |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
media_common.quotation_subject Population MEDLINE Ethnic group Disease Biology Polymorphism Single Nucleotide Health Services Accessibility Universal Health Insurance Excellence parasitic diseases Ethnicity Genetics medicine Humans education Molecular Biology Genetics (clinical) media_common education.field_of_study business.industry Public health Politics Genomics Public relations Thailand Leadership Pharmacogenomics Diffusion of Innovation business Delivery of Health Care Diversity (politics) |
| Zdroj: | Nature Reviews Genetics. 9:S14-S19 |
| ISSN: | 1471-0064 1471-0056 |
| DOI: | 10.1038/nrg2443 |
| Popis: | One potential outcome of investing in genomic medicine is the provision of tools for creating a more cost-effective health-care system. Partly with this aim in mind, Thailand has launched two genotyping initiatives: the Thai SNP Discovery Project and the Thai Centre for Excellence in Life Sciences Pharmacogenomics Project. Together, these projects will help Thailand understand the genomic diversity of its population and explore the role that this diversity has in drug response and disease susceptibility in its population. A major future challenge will be for Thailand to integrate genomic medicine in its relatively young universal health-care system. |
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