Genomics and population health: United States 2003

Foreword -- Genomics and Population Health, 2003: Year at a Glance -- Genomics Lingo\ue2?\ub5..What Do the Terms Mean? -- List of Authors -- -- I. Population Health Research -- Chapter 1. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) III DNA Bank: Gene Variants Important to Public Health -- Chapter 2. Genomics and Acute Public Health Investigations -- -- II. Building the Evidence Base -- Chapter 3. Asthma Genomics: Implications for Public Health -- Chapter 4. Public Health Assessment of BRCA1 and BRCA2 Testing for Breast and Ovarian Cancer -- Chapter 5. Newborn Screening for MCAD Deficiency -- Chapter 6. The Family History Public Health Initiative -- Chapter 7. Genetic Testing and the Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease: A Case Study -- Chapter 8. Genomics and Public Health: Ethical, Legal, and Social Issues -- -- III. Genomics in Practice -- Chapter 9. Carrier Testing for Cystic Fibrosis: Transition from Research to Clinical Practice -- Chapter 10. Ensuring the Quality of Genetic Testing in the United States -- Chapter 11. Hemochromatosis: Information and Resources for Health Care Providers -- Chapter 12. Genomics Training for Public Health Practice: The Michigan Experience -- Chapter 13. Genomics Tools for Public Health -- Chapter 14. State Capacity Grants for Integrating Genomics into Chronic Disease Prevention Programs -- Chapter 15. Internet Resources for Genomics and Disease Prevention[edited by Marta Gwinn ... [et al.]]."March 2004."Also available via World Wide Web

3-Dimensional Facial Analysis-Facing Precision Public Health.

Precision public health is a new field driven by technological advances that enable more precise descriptions and analyses of individuals and population groups, with a view to improving the overall health of populations. This promises to lead to more precise clinical and public health practices, across the continuum of prevention, screening, diagnosis, and treatment. A phenotype is the set of observable characteristics of an individual resulting from the interaction of a genotype with the environment. Precision (deep) phenotyping applies innovative technologies to exhaustively and more precisely examine the discrete components of a phenotype and goes beyond the information usually included in medical charts. This form of phenotyping is a critical component of more precise diagnostic capability and 3-dimensional facial analysis (3DFA) is a key technological enabler in this domain. In this paper, we examine the potential of 3DFA as a public health tool, by viewing it against the 10 essential public health services of the "public health wheel," developed by the US Centers for Disease Control. This provides an illustrative framework to gage current and emergent applications of genomic technologies for implementing precision public health