First, the concept of health risk assessment.
Health risk assessment refers to the quantitative assessment of the health status of individuals or groups and the risk of future illness and/or death. Population health risk assessment can better help the assessed objects to understand their real health risks and guide them to change or correct unhealthy behaviors.
Second, the contents of the population health risk assessment report.
1. Investigate the basic situation of the population, including population structure, health status and living habits.
2. Assessment of health risk factors: including hypertension, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and obesity.
3. Analysis of epidemic trend of diseases: analyze the incidence and mortality of a specific disease in the population and its distribution in different age stages, genders, regions and occupations.
4. Health education and publicity suggestions: formulate relevant health education and publicity strategies according to the results of population health risk assessment to help people understand health status and risks, master health management knowledge and skills, and improve health awareness and health literacy.
The significance of population health risk assessment;
Health risk assessment is a tool for people to voluntarily carry out health management and better and more scientifically understand their own health needs. Through health risk assessment, people can scientifically carry out self-care and disease prevention; You can take part in regular physical examination to screen diseases, especially cancer; Prevention and vaccination of infectious diseases and common diseases can be carried out in time.
Health risk assessment is an effective tool for health education. By introducing the relationship between different diseases and their pathogenic factors, people can understand the importance of implementing health management, changing pathogenic factors from lifestyle and health cognition and reducing the harm of pathogenic factors.
For patients with common diseases and chronic diseases, health risk assessment can also play an irreplaceable role: although doctors will be fully responsible for medical treatment and secondary prevention of acute recurrence of diseases and other complications, health risk assessment can provide reasonable suggestions for patients, so that patients can actively cooperate with doctors on the basis of following the doctor's advice.