What Is Precision Population Health? Here’s Why It’s Needed

Forbes May 12, 2023
Bruce Y. Lee

The Covid-19 pandemic has once again shown that “one-size-fits-all” or even “a-limited-number-of-sizes-fits-all” doesn’t really work when trying to protect or improve the health of a population. The spread of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and the responses to the pandemic have clearly affected different people in different ways. But this current pandemic certainly hasn’t been the first time that simply telling everyone in a population to do the same thing hasn’t been the best approach. After all, as Buffy once sang to Big Bird on the TV show Sesame Street, “Different People, Different Ways.” And when making a decision that may affect many different lives differently, it’s important to consider a word that rhymes with decision. That...

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