caBIG for Population Health: caBIG for Population Health
“Populomics”: 'Populomics' New eHealth solutions may soon permit the real-time integrative utilization of vast amounts of behavioral-, biological-, and community-level information in ways not previously possible. Behavioral algorithms and decision support tools for scientists could facilitate the analysis and interpretation of population level data to enable the development of 'community (population) arrays' or community-wide risk profiles, which in turn could form the foundation of a new 'populomics.'
-- Gibbons, 2005
Obstacles to Population Health: Obstacles to Population Health Discontinuity among levels of analysis (cell person system)
Disincentives for 'team science'
Absence of shared ontologies and vocabularies
Balkanized knowledge bases
Lack of a coordinated 'presentation layer' to policy makers, planners
Redundancy and lack of coordination in field-initiated research
Excessive time lag from discovery to delivery (AHRQ estimates 18 years)
Modeling: Modeling Economic Modeling
Exist because of unit of measures
€ ¥ $ £
Different but comparable
Don’t loose identity or nationality
Population Science
Doesn’t have unit of measure yet
Shells, beads, bobbles
Standards and Vocabularies are Crucial Requirements: Standards and Vocabularies are Crucial Requirements Population data is non-comparable
Systems cannot interchange data
Secondary uses (Research) are not possible
Linkage to decisions support is not possible
Health outcomes cannot expand to individuals and policy makers Without Standards…..
Adding “Populomics” to the “Grid”: Proteomics Genomics Nanotechnology Populomics* Focus Adding 'Populomics' to the 'Grid'
Illustrations of Use: Illustrations of Use
Obesity Trends* Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 1985: Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1985 (*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs overweight for 5’ 4' person)
Obesity Trends* Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 1986: Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1986 (*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs overweight for 5’ 4' person)
Obesity Trends* Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 1987: Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1987 (*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs overweight for 5’ 4' person)
Obesity Trends* Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 1988: Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1988 (*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs overweight for 5’ 4' person)
Obesity Trends* Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 1989: Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1989 (*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs overweight for 5’ 4' person)
Obesity Trends* Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 1990: Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1990 (*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs overweight for 5’ 4' person)
Obesity Trends* Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 1991: Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1991 (*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs overweight for 5’ 4' person)
Obesity Trends* Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 1992: Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1992 (*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs overweight for 5’ 4' person)
Obesity Trends* Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 1993: Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1993 (*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs overweight for 5’ 4' person)
Obesity Trends* Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 1994: Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1994 (*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs overweight for 5’ 4' person)
Obesity Trends* Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 1995: Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1995 (*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs overweight for 5’ 4' person)
Obesity Trends* Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 1996: Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1996 (*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs overweight for 5’ 4' person)
Obesity Trends* Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 1997: Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1997 (*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs overweight for 5’ 4' person)
Obesity Trends* Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 1998: Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1998 (*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs overweight for 5’ 4' person)
Obesity Trends* Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 1999: Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 1999 (*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs overweight for 5’ 4' person)
Obesity Trends* Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 2000: Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 2000 (*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs overweight for 5’ 4' person)
Obesity Trends* Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 2001: Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 2001 (*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs overweight for 5’ 4' person)
Slide25: (*BMI 30, or ~ 30 lbs overweight for 5’4' person) Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 2002 (*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs overweight for 5’ 4' person)
Obesity Trends* Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 2003: Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 2003 (*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs overweight for 5’ 4' person)
Obesity Trends* Among U.S. AdultsBRFSS, 2004: Obesity Trends* Among U.S. Adults BRFSS, 2004 (*BMI ≥30, or ~ 30 lbs overweight for 5’ 4' person)
How do we change the consciousness of Population Sciences: How do we change the consciousness of Population Sciences
It not a technology problem
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