The Precision Health and Everyday Democracy (PHED) Project: Protocol for a Transdisciplinary Collaboration on Health Equity and the Role of Health in Society.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The project "Precision Health and Everyday Democracy" (PHED) is a transdisciplinary partnership that combines a diverse range of perspectives necessary for understanding the increasingly complex societal role played by modern health care and medical research. The term "precision health" is being increasingly used to express the need for greater awareness of environmental and genomic characteristics that may lead to divergent health outcomes between different groups within a population. Enhancing awareness of diversity has parallels with calls for "health democracy" and greater patient-public participation within health care and medical research. Approaching health care in this way goes beyond a narrow focus on the societal determinants of health, since it requires consid

SUBMITTER: Strange M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7735904 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature