Abstract
HRA Health Risk Assessment System
by
Xiangcao Liu
A health risk
Assessment system is an important tool for helping people realize what
lifestyle changes they should have and what benefits they can have by doing
things the right way in order to live healthier and longer. In this thesis, we discuss various components
of a health risk assessment system, called the HRA system, which is being
developed by a multi-institutional team of researchers from The MetroHealth System,
Case Western Reserve University, and other institutions.
The HRA system takes
the questionnaire answers of the user, and produces multiple visualized reports
with messages, pictures and bar charts over a range of calculated statistics
about the participant’s health status, that highlight potential death risks to
the user. The questions in the questionnaire include basic demographic
information, epidemiologic data, and life-style information. Health providers
can use this tool to communicate with patients on their health status, and individual
users can use it to stay aware of their health situation, and, thus, take early
measures to deal with risks in their lifestyles.
This project has
fully revamped the midlife HRA calculation library from a previous version, implemented
a risk computation library for the older adult HRA (twenty minute version and
comprehensive version), and developed a visualization library for HRA report
rendering.
