The famous 5P Medicine encompasses the following concepts: it is personalised, predictive, preventive, participative, and for the population.
Traditional medicine tries to model health and well-being references and compare pathological or non-desirable situations. Prognosis and diagnosis are principally based upon signs and symptoms, and other significant health factors are rarely taken into account.
Alongside new technologies growing capacity, a more transversal, modular, multidisciplinary model can be achieved when taking into account many factors that determine a patient’s well-being.
Personalised precision medicine aims at changing this paradigm, define making clinical and care decisions based upon health factors -molecular, social, environmental, behavioural, etc.- for each individual or population. By what was approached before, an improvement in prevention, diagnosis, and treatment for many diseases is needed.