{"id":133560,"date":"2022-01-04T18:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-01-05T02:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/is-precision-public-health-the-future-or-a-contradiction"},"modified":"2022-01-04T18:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T02:22:19","slug":"is-precision-public-health-the-future-or-a-contradiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/is-precision-public-health-the-future-or-a-contradiction","title":{"rendered":"Is precision public health the future \u2014 or a contradiction?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/is-precision-public-health-the-future-or-a-contradiction2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The definition of precision public health is sprawling and variable: for most researchers in the field it includes a sweep of data-driven techniques, such as sequencing pathogens to detect outbreaks and turbo-charging data collection to monitor harmful environmental exposures. It also encompasses an ambition to target interventions to specific people who need them.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Some public-health researchers are embracing data and technology to target small groups with precise health interventions. Others fear that these tactics could fail millions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The definition of precision public health is sprawling and variable: for most researchers in the field it includes a sweep of data-driven techniques, such as sequencing pathogens to detect outbreaks and turbo-charging data collection to monitor harmful environmental exposures. It also encompasses an ambition to target interventions to specific people who need them. Some public-health [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":417,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/417"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133560"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133560\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}