Relevance of Health Literacy to Precision Medicine: Proceedings of a Workshop

by Roundtable on Health Literacy, Health and Medicine Division, The National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine, et al.

On January 20, 2015, President Obama announced the Precision Medicine Initiative (PMI) in his State of the Union address. The PMI, by developing new approaches for detecting, measuring, and analyzing a wide range of biomedical information including molecular, genomic, cellular, clinical, behavioral, physiological, and environmental parameters, is intended to enable a new era of medicine in which researchers, providers, and patients work together...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309447321
• ISBN13: 9780309447324
• Release Date: December 2016
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 124 Pages