Volume 2: No. 2, April 2005 TOOLS AND TECHNIQUES The Asthma
Consultative Process: A Collaborative Approach to Integrating
Genomics Into Public Health Practice This flowchart illustrates
how scientific findings are translated into public health
practice. The chart flows from left (starting with “Genetic
Contribution of Disease”) to right (ending with “Improved Health
Outcomes”). An arrow along the top of the chart indicates this
left to right progression. In addition, two arrows positioned
head to tail in a circle along the bottom of the chart indicate
that the five major components of the pathway interact with each
other. |Identification of Genetic Component ||Family history
studies |Characteristics of Risk |Implementation & Assessment
|Public & Private Policy ||Assessment of health care delivery
||Evaluation of harms/benefits of genetic information Figure 1.
Translational pathway, which serves to illustrate translation of
scientific findings into public health practice. Return to
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