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 The
personalized individual health assessment has many components
including a health and safety risk assessment profile. This
online health assessment
tool is used to determine lifestyle, family history, basic
demographics, and personal history. This report summarizes
medical and self care patterns, health risks, and health behaviors.
The personalized individual health assessment provides the
most accurate information when recent accurate data is available
for entry. As with any type of data collection, accuracy and
recent information must be available for input to have meaningful
output. It must be stressed to individuals to answer with
current behavior patterns, not those that they recognize that
they should be doing, those that they have done in the past,
or those that they plan to do. The assessed data focuses on
health risks that are modifiable thus allowing for the planning
of more cost effective employee health and wellness programming.
The online
health assessment and employee wellness and health screening
is designed to be performed annually, with ongoing comparative
analysis of individual and group trends. This is an essential
tool in addressing health risk exposure as well as evaluation
of steps taken to address any such health risks that are identified.
In addition, this provides an assessment of change in health
risk and status based on variations in the employee population
measured from year to year. It is also recommended that the
online health assessment
be performed at approximately the same time each year.
The goal of the personalized individual health
assessment report is to provide evidence-based information,
based on individual health risk and lifestyle choices. With
the health assessment report, the employee can observe changes
over time for areas that need work or for those they have
already worked on. It is important for each individual to
obtain the most current information about their blood pressure,
cholesterol level, body fat percentage, etc. The best way
to assure accuracy of the information being entered is to
provide opportunity of measurement of data at the worksite.
If the individual does not have current data, then they need
to enter “unknown”. The printed report may be used
to provide information to their primary care physician to
assist in developing a plan of action for improving the health
of the individual or to follow up on newly identified concerns.
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