Health risk assessment (HRA) is a method or tool to describe and evaluate the possibility of an individual suffering from or dying of a specific disease in the future.
The purpose of this analysis process is to estimate the possibility of occurrence at a specific time, not to make a definite diagnosis. Quantitative assessment of personal health status and future illness/death risk by health risk assessors. Including health status, future illness/death risk and quantitative assessment.
Tracing back the history of health risk assessment, there are mainly the following important stages:
In 1 and 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 was the leader of the public health department in cancer control research. He presided over the formulation of "10 mortality 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 quantitative estimation of individual mortality risk probability of patients, all necessary conditions for quantitative health risk assessment have been met.
4. In1970, Dr. Robbins and Dr. Jack Hall wrote the book How to Prospective Medicine for interns, elaborated the quantitative relationship between health risk factors and future health outcomes, and provided a complete health risk assessment toolkit, including questionnaire survey, health risk calculation and feedback communication methods. At this point, health risk assessment has entered a period of large-scale application and rapid development.