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A life-course multisectoral approach to precision health in LMICs

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Precision health in low- and middle-income countries should focus on disease prevention and implementation in order to be cost-effective and impactful.

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Fig. 1: Data for precision health.

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  1. Makerere University, College of Health Sciences, School of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda

    Stefan Swartling Peterson, Roy Mayega & Peter Waiswa

  2. Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden

    Stefan Swartling Peterson & Peter Waiswa

  3. Road Traffic Injuries Research Network (RTIRN) https://rtirn.net/

    Olive Kobusingye

  4. Uganda Cancer Institute, Kampala, Uganda

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S.S.P. is partly funded by the European Union (EU) www.prophetproject.eu to develop a Personalized Prevention research agenda for the EU. All other authors declare no competing interests.

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Swartling Peterson, S., Kobusingye, O., Mayega, R. et al. A life-course multisectoral approach to precision health in LMICs. Nat Med 30, 1813–1815 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-024-03108-1

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