Precision Health for Children: Innovating Equitable Wellness through Personalized Medicine

Precision Health for Children and Adolescents: Leveraging Innovation to Enhance Equitable Wellness

Ensuring optimal health and well-being across all ages is foundational to sustnable development, and recent advancements in life sciences, medicine, and technology are unveiling new avenues for safeguarding child health. The field of precision health holds transformative potential by personalizing strategies and treatments based on individual genetic predispositions, environmental exposures, and lifestyle choices.

Precision health embodies a predictive, preventive, participatory, and personalized approach that encompasses next-generation diagnostics and therapeutic innovations. These advancements offer novel solutions to combat top 10 child mortality causes attributed to communicable diseases, marking significant progress in global health.

However, realizing the full potential of precision health requires careful consideration to avoid exacerbating existing health disparities. It necessitates a holistic view of health and well-being that integrates inclusivity, diversity, and equity at every level. By implementing practical strategies, precision public health can seamlessly align with Sustnable Development Goal SDG 3 targets and maximize its impact within the international development sector.

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Authors

UNICEF Innovation

Publication Date

February 2024

Languages

English

Downloadable Files

• Insights Report: Precision Health PDF, 2 MB

• Overview of Precision Health PDF, 807 KB

• Precision Health Technologies and Innovations PDF, 818 KB

• Precision Health and Equity PDF, 822 KB

• Health Concerns: Communicable Diseases PDF, 797 KB

• Non-Communicable Diseases Focus PDF, 915 KB

• Rare Diseases Insight PDF, 948 KB

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