Pop Health Data Models Refine Chronic Disease Prevention, Screening
Health IT Analytics July 7, 2021
A new study uses population health strategies to assist in examining changes in HPV cervical screening modalities, promoting chronic disease prevention.
In a recent study, researchers used population health strategies to examine changes in human papillomavirus (HPV)-based cervical screening modalities as HPV vaccination becomes more widespread, promoting chronic disease prevention.
The goal of the study was to estimate outcomes of different screening methods to show how an increasing uptick in HPV vaccination rate could impact the interpretation of screening results. Since the development of high-quality national screening programs, there has been an estimated 80 percent reduction in mortality for women older than 25 years with squamous cell carcinoma.
“HPV DNA testing as a screening tool has superior sensitivity in detecting...