"Population medicine"

Veterinary medicine is a broad and growing discipline that includes topics such as companion animal health, population medicine and zoonotic diseases, and agriculture. In this article, we provide insight on how artificial intelligence works and how it is currently applied in veterinary medicine. We also discuss its potential in veterinary medicine. Given the rapid pace of research and commercial product developments in this area, the next several years will pose challenges to understanding, interpreting, and adopting this powerful and evolving technology...

Introduction: The Muisca Indigenous people in Cota, Colombia, has committed to reviving and strengthening their traditional culture, including the ancestral knowledge associated with their traditional medicine. Objective: To explore the occurrence of traditional medicine and factors associated with its use among the Muisca people in Cota, Colombia. Methods: A participatory cross-sectional study applied a questionnaire to 471 Muisca mothers who had at least one child over 10 in April 2019...

The lower temperature in autumn-winter provides favorable conditions for the survival and spread of respiratory infectious diseases such as the corona virus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and influenza. It is likely that there will be a co-circulation of respiratory pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2 and influenza. In order to promote the prevention and control of influenza and the application of influenza vaccination during the COVID-19 pandemic in China, we separately discussed the risk of influenza epidemic in the 2021-2022 season, the influenza vaccination policies, and advocate influenza vaccination during the COVID-19 pandemic from the perspective of population medicine...

The objective of the work is to describe features of the health system in Argentina though the way that the population access to medicines. Argentine health system reflects all the systems of the world in just one country. The National Public Health system, the Social Security and Private sectors coexist in order to attend the needs and demand of the population. Medicines are good examples to analyze how the system works. This text provides a description of each health sub-sectors in Argentina, and performs an analysis on the differences in access to medicines that patients have...

Three healthcare revolutions and four medical paradigm shifts have had a profound impact on the development of healthcare system, which has greatly improved human health, however, the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed hidden dangers and problems in the construction of the healthcare system. In this paper, we made a brief introduction of population medicine and value-based healthcare for the purpose of suggesting new ideas and directions for the future development of healthcare system.

Honeybee veterinary medicine is a developing field in Canada and the United States. Veterinarians interested in working with honeybees should develop a comprehensive knowledge base on disease dynamics as it applies to the individual, colony, apiary, and broader honeybee populations. There are currently several governmental, academic, and industry organizations that are carrying out epidemiological-based surveys. Although honeybees face unique challenges in regard to biosecurity, the basic principles still apply...

INTRODUCTION: Direct Primary Care (DPC) is a relatively new primary care practice model in which patients receive unlimited access to a defined set of primary care services in exchange for a monthly practice-specific membership fee. DPC is a bottom-up physician-driven approach in contrast to typical top-down insurer-centric healthcare delivery reform efforts. The degree to which physicians are aware of this practice model and whether they believe it addresses two key challenges facing primary care, access and administrative burden, are unclear...

Cancer patients are identified as fragile patients who are often immunodepressed and subject to secondary diseases. The Ada cohort comprises cancer survivors aged 15-39 years at diagnosis included in 34 Italian cancer registries. This study aimed to analyze the possible excess of non-cancer medicines use on the basis of the medicine database of the Ada cohort. Records of medicines present in the pharmaceutical flows collected by eight Lombardy cancer registries and used by patients with any type of cancer were extracted for the year 2012...

INTRODUCTION: Sleep deficiency is associated with health risks, and time outdoors is related to health benefits. This study assessed time outdoors and its association with sleep normality. METHODS: As part of a health study in Louisville, Kentucky, 735 participants completed questionnaires on their health status, behaviors, neighborhoods, and demographics in 2018-2019. The measures included information on sleep, time outdoors, and mental and physical health. Participant characteristics were assessed by dichotomized sleep normality (N=728), and logistic regression (N=709) examined potential associations between time outdoors and sleep...

INTRODUCTION: E-cigarettes are the most popular tobacco product among youth. Although harm perceptions have been linked to youth e-cigarette use, little research focuses on vulnerable populations, such as Appalachian youth. This study examines associations between e-cigarette harm perceptions and tobacco use among a sample of Appalachian youth. METHODS: Using data from the 2014-2016 Youth Appalachian Tobacco Study (n=1074), distributions of six e-cigarette harm perceptions by tobacco use (never, ever non-e-cigarette, ever e-cigarette) were examined, and multivariable multinomial logistic regression was used...

ISSUE: Health systems have been increasingly called upon to address population health concerns and continuing medical education (CME) is an important means through which clinical practices can be improved. This manuscript elaborates on existing conceptual frameworks in order to support CME practitioners, funders, and policy makers to develop, implement, and evaluate CME vis-a-vis population health concerns. EVIDENCE: Existing CME conceptual models and conceptions of CME effectiveness require elaboration in order to meet goals of population health improvement...

INTRODUCTION: Exposure to green spaces is beneficial to mental health in a variety of ways, ranging from stress reduction to increased attentiveness and elevated self-esteem. The impact of views of greenness, as opposed to direct exposure, has been examined, but the association between self-reported views and depressive symptoms is not known. The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between views of greenness and Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) score. METHODS: Questionnaire responses from 191 participants in the Health, Environment, and Action in Louisville (HEAL) study were examined...

The institutions of the Public Health Service at the level of the federal government, the states and the local authorities play a central role in public health in Germany. To manage the many practical tasks of health protection, disease prevention and health promotion in accordance with legal requirements, employees with different skills work together and contribute to social coherence. There are no empirical data on nationwide staffing levels. For years, different actors have been reporting a decreasing number of public health consultants and associated quality of public health work...

Introduction: The youth are a vulnerable population-group for tobacco-related harms. Schools are an excellent setting for health promotion; yet there is a dearth of school-based cessation interventions, rarely evaluated for their impact. Here, we assess the impact of the LifeFirst program: an ongoing tobacco and supari (areca nut) cessation intervention delivered to students from corporation schools in Mumbai city. Methods: We used a prospective quasi-experimental design with an intervention and a control arm embedded within an ongoing LifeFirst program in select schools...

Precision medicine is the new age medicine and refers to tailoring treatments to a subpopulation who have a common susceptibility to a particular disease or similar response to a particular drug. Although the concept existed even during the times of Sir William Osler, it was given a shot in the arm with the Precision Medicine Initiative launched by Barack Obama in 2015. The main tools of precision medicine are Big data, artificial intelligence, the various omics, pharmaco-omics, environmental and social factors and the integration of these with preventive and population medicine...

BACKGROUND: The aim of our study was to examine the performance of two assays in detecting SARS-CoV-2 antibodies. METHODS: A total of 127 COVID-19 disease contacts from the Infectious Diseases Department were included. Two serological tests were used: SARS-CoV-2 IgG CMIA on the Alinity system (Abbott) and LIAISON® SARS-CoV-2 S1/S2 IgG CLIA (DiaSorin). RESULTS: The assays exhibited a 96.85% (123/127 patients) test result agreement. In two cases, the positive results obtained by SARS-CoV-2 IgG CMIA on the Alinity system (Abbott) were negative based on the LIAISON® SARS-CoV-2 S1/S2 IgG CLIA (DiaSorin) test, and in two cases, negative results from the LIAISON® SARS-CoV-2 S1/S2 IgG CLIA (DiaSorin) test were positive with the SARS-CoV-2 IgG CMIA on the Alinity system (Abbott)...

In the Russian Federation, for long time legal uncertainty existed regarding relationship between the standards of medical care and clinical guidelines in organizing medical care support. In the actual legislation, there were no official definitions of concept "clinical guidelines". The obligation of of clinical guidelines implementation was limited by expertise of medical care quality. The article analyzes main stages of development and application of clinical guidelines regulation and their relationship with medical care standards as well...

CONTEXT: Preventive medicine residents must train in population medicine (including analytics and population health) and clinical preventive medicine (including screening, behavioral counseling, and chemoprophylaxis). Yet, opportunities to perform both functions concurrently for the same population are scarce. Residents must also master the art of preventive medicine, but they often lack an established community of practice that provides a continuous forum to do so. This project explored Population Health Rounds as a novel vehicle to optimize preventive medicine residency training...

Genetic testing has the potential to revolutionize primary care, but few health systems have developed the infrastructure to support precision population medicine applications or attempted to evaluate its impact on patient and provider outcomes. In 2018, Sanford Health, the nation's largest rural nonprofit health care system, began offering genetic testing to its primary care patients. To date, more than 11,000 patients have participated in the Sanford Chip Program, over 90% of whom have been identified with at least one informative pharmacogenomic variant, and about 1...

Series of the studies and consensus on the basic research on seasonal and animal influenza virus, clinical characteristics of patients with pneumonia caused by influenza A (H1N1) and severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), disease burden of influenza, and promotion of influenza vaccination for the elderly were published in this special issue, aiming to describe the feature of influenza virological and clinical characteristics, health and economic burden, and vaccination. These researches emphasized the importance of the integration between basic medicine, clinical medicine, public health and preventive medicine in the prevention and control of infectious diseases...