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Volume 8 J Community Med Health Educ, an open access journal
ISSN: 2161-0711 Public Health 2018
February 26-28, 2018
PUBLIC HEALTH AND NUTRITION
3rd World Congress on
February 26-28, 2018 London, UK
CONSIDERATIONOFNEWCOHORTSTUDYFRAMEWORKBYINTEGRATINGPRECISION
HEALTHAPPROACHES
Ikuko Tomomatsua and Yoshito Datea
aEagle Matrix Consulting Co. Ltd, Japan
The aim of this presentation is to discuss how precision health approaches can be used to develop cohort studies.
Technological developments have accelerated precision health studies, making it possible to accumulate detailed data
on individuals’ health conditions. Moreover, these data can more precisely visualise all health conditions. These conditions
provide individuals with particular settings that enable them to grasp their own bodily conditions and, thereby, control them.
Cohort studies focus on the inter-relationships between factors that may influence individuals’ health. As such, precision
health approaches and perspectives seem to assist existing cohort studies by adding further factors that can be collected by
newly developed technologies. Considering the progress in precision health, it is important to apply precision health to cohort
studies. To explore how precision health approaches can be applied to cohort studies, 11 major cohort studies in Japan were
examined in terms of their study framework.
Two provisional perspectives emerged:
1. By applying precision health approaches, the health-related data in traditional cohort studies will be integrated into
more detailed data sets as genome data, family history, life-log and environmental factors, and
2. Existing cohort studies tend to focus on people requiring behaviour changes in order to improve their health.
However, these studies have not developed indices to evaluate people with positive health behaviours and who have controlled
their health condition. We argue that it is fundamental for future cohort studies to establish an index to evaluate whether or
not people are succeeding in terms of health improvement.
Biography
Ikuko Tomomatsu has Graduated from Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry, University of London in 2012. She started her career as a
researcher at a clinic in Japan and has conducted projects regarding integrated community care system and home medical care. In 2016, she joined Eagle Matrix
Consulting Co. Ltd, and has led projects of integrated community care system and home medical care as a public health specialist.
Ikuko et al., J Community Med Health Educ 2018, Vol 8
DOI: 10.4172/2161-0711-C1-032