Precision population health: A tailored way to prevent and treat health conditions

Advisory Board August 24, 2023

During the pandemic, it became clear that a “one-size-fits-all” approach was not effective at protecting or improving the health of the population. Going forward, precision population health (PPH), a more tailored approach to healthcare, will be needed to proactively prevent and treat health conditions.

What is precision population health?

PPH combines the tailored approach of precision medicine with the broad scale of population health.

PPH accounts for people’s differences in genes, lifestyles, and environment. It uses a predictive form of risk stratification to identify the specific healthcare needs in a community and offer interventions to target those specific needs.

Rather than reacting to health problems that already exist, PPH tries to proactively identify patients’ potential health needs and connect them...

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