At 1. 1940, Dr. Lewis C.Robbins first put forward the concept of health risk assessment. He summed up a point from the prevention of cervical cancer and heart disease at that time: doctors should record the health risks of patients and guide the effective development of disease prevention. The health hazard map he created has given more predictive significance to the physical examination results.
2. 1950, Robbins is the leader of cancer control research in public health department. He presided over the formulation of 10 Death Risk Table, and in many small demonstration teaching projects, health risk assessment was used as the teaching material and application mode of medical courses.
3. In the late 1960s, with the extensive application of life insurance actuarial methods in the quantitative estimation of individual death risk probability of patients, all necessary conditions for quantitative health risk assessment have been met.
4.1970 Dr. Robbins and Dr. Jack Hall wrote How to Prospective Medicine for Interns, expounding the quantitative relationship between current health risk factors and future health outcomes, and providing a complete health risk assessment toolkit, including questionnaires, health risk calculation and feedback communication methods. At this point, health risk assessment has entered a period of large-scale application and rapid development.