Health Risk Appraisal: A Tool for Health Education

Summary Objective: To develop a Web-based Health Risk Appraisal (HRA) system as a tool for health education based on personal health examination data. Methods: A Japanese health examination database was analyzed to develop models for HRA, which were designed to predict each of ten laboratory values in a year with and without lifestyle modifications. The HRA models were embedded into a server. Results: The Web-based HRA system has been introduced into a Japanese health care association having 37 branch centers. Following a health examination, an individual health education program using the Web-based HRA system is provided to a given client at each branch center or at a client’s office. A measured laboratory value and corresponding predicted laboratory values in a year with and without lifestyle modifications are displayed on the screen in forms of both numerical values and graphs. A trained nurse or another health care provider operates the system and explains the HRA result. Conclusion: The Web-based HRA system will be a practical tool for individual health education following health examination.

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The medical Risk Assessment and Health Education in Older people (RAHEO) study: Feasibility and performance of a health risk appraisal questionnaire combined with health education in Romania

http://isrctn.org/> ◽

10.1186/isrctn11166046 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

Gabriel Loan Prada

Keyword(s):

Risk Assessment ◽

Health Education ◽

Health Risk ◽

Older People ◽

Risk Appraisal ◽

Medical Risk ◽

Health Risk Appraisal ◽

And Performance

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Health-Risk Appraisal Applied to Ordinary AMHTS

Methods of Information in Medicine ◽

10.1055/s-0038-1634924 ◽

1993 ◽

Vol 32 (03) ◽

pp. 260-263

Author(s):

N. Okazaki ◽

S. Hinohara ◽

J. Sugiyama ◽

A. Nakamura ◽

Y. Iwashimizu ◽

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Keyword(s):

Primary Prevention ◽

Health Education ◽

Early Detection ◽

Health Risk ◽

Health Risks ◽

The Other ◽

Testing System ◽

Future Health ◽

Risk Appraisal ◽

Health Risk Appraisal

Abstract:The main purpose of an automatic health testing system (AMHTS) has changed from early detection to primary prevention. Health-risk appraisal is now widely available as a tool of health education aiming at the modification of unhealthy lifestyles. However, the opportunity to offer appropriate health education was less frequent for those who had no particular findings during AMHTS. The results of an AMHTS should be evaluated from the viewpoint of health-risk appraisal, because the system is expected to supply useful information regarding one’s lifestyle. Our system consists of two health-risk appraisal subsystems. One subsystem estimates the degree of improvement in medical indicators after a patient’s lifestyle has been modified. The other subsystem predicts the occurrence of abnormal findings in medical indicators. These health-risk appraisal subsystems provide patients with information about their health-risks, based on their AMHTS results. Our health-risk appraisal subsystems should play an important role in future health education through the application of ordinary AMHTS.

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