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Developing and Addressing the Public Health Agenda for Psoriasis and Psoriatic Arthritis
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Feb 11, 2013
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Description:This is a revised and condensed version of a report submitted on September 23, 2010 by SciMetrika under Contract # 200-2008-27889, Task Order 0006 and 0013.
The findings and conclusions in this report are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily represent the views of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Public health is what we, as a society, do to assure the conditions for people to be healthy (Institute of Medicine, 1988). The three core functions of public health consist of assessment, policy development, and assurance (Institute of Medicine, 1988). In early 2010, the Arthritis Program of the Arthritis, Epilepsy, and Well-being Branch at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) received federal appropriations to begin developing a public health agenda addressing the assessment function for psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis. Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease which manifests on the skin and has been estimated to affect approximately five million people in the United States (NIH, 2009). Psoriatic arthritis is a condition which includes joint inflammation and skin lesions, though these may not occur at the same time. The onset of psoriasis generally occurs before psoriatic arthritis, though this is not always the case (NPF, 2010).
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