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

An Health Risk Assessment (HRA) is an important tool to help you isolate the value of strong Corporate 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 most of these features:

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

Health Risk Appraisals would analyze the employee’s:

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