Examining the impact of precision medicine on health disparities


Martin, Antony ORCID: 0000-0003-4383-6038 (2019) Examining the impact of precision medicine on health disparities. PhD thesis, University of Liverpool.

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Abstract

Precision Medicine (PM) offers the potential to revolutionise the healthcare sector through improving the effectiveness of treatments. Simultaneously, PM aims to reduce side effects, avoid inappropriate treatment and remove the need for trial-and-error practices. PM use (mainly molecular) biomarkers for the purpose of risk assessment, diagnosis, prognosis, monitoring and guiding therapeutic decisions. There are concerns that PM may be taken up less quickly and in lower numbers in some populations due to challenges in access, ability to pay privately, availability and understanding of health information. Understanding how PM is implemented is important to ensure that beneficial aggregate population health effects do not conceal widening health disparities between different subgroups within a population. Proponents of PM argue that greater effectiveness in clinical care as a result of wideuse of PM could lower healthcare costs. Moreover, although more disadvantaged populations may suffer lower initial access; barriers will reduce as PM becomes incorporated into clinical practice guidelines. Some believe that disparities may increase or temporarily increase. History has shown that some disparities may take many ... (continues)

Item Type: Thesis (PhD)
Divisions: Faculty of Health and Life Sciences > Institute of Life Courses and Medical Sciences > School of Medicine
Depositing User: Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited: 13 Aug 2020 10:30
Last Modified: 07 Feb 2025 13:31
DOI: 10.17638/03062324
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URI: https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3062324
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