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What Gets Measured Gets Done: Genomics, Surveillance Indicators and Healthy People 2020

Public health surveillance indicators, such as those developed for the Healthy People initiative are useful for monitoring the development of genomic medicine in the United States. For several decades, Healthy People has established health benchmarks that are considered important metrics for tracking progress in health and healthcare in the United States. Read More >

September 13, 2012 by Muin J Khoury and Katherine Kolor, Office of Public Health Genomics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

genomics

genetic testing, genomics, healthy people 2020, surveillance