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NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN HEALTH RISK APPRAISAL

NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN HEALTH RISK APPRAISAL

Health risk appraisal is being accomplished today with the use of new technologies such as the computer, the CD-ROM, and other means of gathering and analyzing data. These new technologies raise significant issues to be addressed in health education as to the use of such technologies, their limitations, and possible future developments of importance to educators. Educators also need to be able to use the various health appraisal protocols now in existence and to know which are the most valuable and which may have special applications. While computers are becoming more important in health education, their value is still limited by the available choices of software in the field, though new programs are being written all the time. Health risk appraisal instruments that have been used without computer assistance are being adapted for computer use and are also being incorporated into programs of computer analysis of data. Health education must take cognizance of these developments and incorporate them into future instruction.

Health risk appraisal has been accomplished through the use of various instruments developed by different bodies and for different specific purposes. Many of these are described by the National Health Information Clearinghouse (1985), showing the type of instrument involved and the type of information each elicits. A number of these have been developed specifically for computer-scoring. Consider some of these instruments and their uses:

--CHART (Comparative Health Age Relationship Testing) (Medichart Corporation): There are 16 questions in this instrument which are designed to collect information on physiological and laboratory measurements, history of serious diseases, and the number of cigarettes smoked per day by respondents. The profile explains risks and how they are computed.

--COMPUTES (Overman Associates): This instrument was developed for corp...

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