Health Risk Assessment

Health Risk Assessment: Helping Quantify Employee Health help you quantify employee health

An Health Risk Assessment Health Risk Assessments / Health Risk Appraisals is an important tool to help you isolate the value of strong Wellness Program Programs.

Health Risk Assessment: What is it?

Does the term “Health Risk Assessment” have you puzzled? If so, then you are not alone.  Unfortunately there is no standard definition or format for a Health Risk Assessment. A health risk assessment is both a procedure and a document, too, depending on the context — you must answer questions and ideally undergo some simple Employee Health Screening and Biometric Testing to develop a document that describes what’s good and bad about your current state of health.

To add confusion to the situation, there’s a field called health risk management. Talk to an OSHA inspector about health risk assessment and they will likely assume you’re referring to an analysis of contaminants and industrial chemicals in a factory or manufacturing facility.

Health Risk Assessment: The Typical Health Risk Assessment

A comprehensive health risk assessment is aimed at producing a concrete baseline of a individual’s health, and includes the majority of of these features:

a blood pressure check,
cancer testing,
blood sugar test, and
a analysis of the employee’s health status.

Health Risk Assessments / Health Risk Appraisals would analyze the employee’s:

lifestyle factors,
health conditions,
prescriptions medications,
functional concerns and abilities,
quality of life,
self-efficacy,
physical fitness level.