How can genomics help improve care of underserved populations? ...

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How can genomics help improve care of underserved populations? (Select all that apply.)
 
  A) Identify increased risk in certain populations for specific diseases.
  B) Boost the immune system of individuals in the community.
  C) Predict how a community might metabolize medications.
  D) Reduce the cost of medications.
  E) Predict a community's unique vulnerability to environmental changes that can control gene expression in some diseases.

Question 2

Which most accurately characterize Medicare clients with acute myocardial infarctions (AMIs) who are treated in rural hospitals? (Select all that apply.)
 
  A) Less likely to experience an opportunistic infection than those in urban hospitals
  B) Less likely to receive recommended treatments than those in urban hospitals
  C) More likely to have a second AMI within a month of the first than those in urban hospitals
  D) Have significantly higher adjusted 30-day post-AMI death rates from all causes than those in urban hospitals
  E) Experience faster recovery times than those in urban hospitals

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Answer to Question 1

Ans: A, C, E
Feedback:
Understanding the genetic predictors of disease through genomics is a determinant of how certain individuals, families, and communities may be disproportionately affected by illness, and why public health must be part of a strategy that addresses discoveries in a practical way in this developing science. We also know that different groups of people by gender or other key demographic characteristics respond to preventive treatment differently because of their genetic make-up. For example, some genotypes may metabolize medications differently. Some populations may have specific vulnerability and key environmental influences related to their health. Gomes and Pelosi (2013) discuss how the potential vulnerability to environmental changes can control gene expression in diseases of great interest in public health such as cancer, autoimmune diseases, and perhaps even the aging process.

Answer to Question 2

Ans: B, D
Feedback:
Medicare clients with AMI who were treated in rural hospitals were less likely than those treated in urban hospitals to receive recommended treatments and had significantly higher adjusted 30-day post-AMI death rates from all causes than those in urban hospitals. The other answers are not true.