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An Application for Pairing with Wearable Devices to Monitor Personal Health Status
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2022
The present protocol introduces a non-commercial self-developed application for collecting real-time on-site data, including psychological scales, GPS location, heart rate, and blood-oxygen saturation level, as well as the application's operating procedures. An empirical study conducted in Taiwan in 2020 was used as an application example.
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Oral Health Assessment by Lay Personnel for Older Adults
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2020
The goal of this protocol is to enable non-dental professionals to assess oral health status for research or health-screening purposes. Aspects assessed include lips, tongue, soft and hard tissues, natural and artificial teeth, oral cleanliness, plaque, swallowing, and impact of oral health on quality of life.
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Necropsy-based Wild Fish Health Assessment
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2018
The health of wild fishes can be used as an indicator of aquatic ecosystem health. Necropsy-based fish health assessments provide documentation of visible lesions or abnormalities, data used to calculate condition indices as well as the opportunity to collect tissues for microscopic evaluation, gene expression and other more in-depth analyses.
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Nursing Assessment of the Genitourinary System I: Health History
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2025
The genitourinary system is critical to maintaining fluid balance, waste elimination, and reproductive function. Nurses play a vital role in assessing this system, beginning with a thorough health history. This process involves gathering patient information, identifying risk factors, and recognizing symptoms of genitourinary disorders. Early detection is vital for timely interventions and management.1. Gathering Patient InformationA complete health history includes the patient’s personal,...
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Assessment of the Gastrointestinal System II: Health Perception Pattern
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2025
Assessing the gastrointestinal (GI) system is a complex process that begins with collecting subjective data. This data, collected through patient interviews, provides crucial insights into the patient's health history, perception patterns, and lifestyle habits, all contributing significantly to GI health. Health Perception Patterns Health perception patterns offer valuable insights into a patient's lifestyle habits and how they may impact their GI health. These patterns include: Health...
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Individual characteristics can change how environmental conditions relate to health risk, so population averages may obscure important differences. A personalized health assessment brings together medical history, lifestyle, physiological measures, and exposure information to examine those differences in one person. This integrated view can reveal combinations of risk factors and protective factors that would be less visible in population-level analysis.
Exposure information adds context to medical and physiological findings by showing what conditions a person encounters in work settings or geographic locations. Combined with lifestyle and health history, it can help identify patterns linking air quality, water contaminants, occupational conditions, or geography to individual susceptibility. Its value comes from interpreting exposures alongside personal factors rather than in isolation.
Environmental conditions can change, and their effects may not be captured by a single measurement. Monitoring over time allows assessors to examine whether shifts in a person’s surroundings correspond with changes in health risks, needs, or outcomes. This perspective supports prevention and helps evaluate how environmental change affects an individual rather than only a population.
It can combine health history, lifestyle information, physiological measures, and relevant exposure data, including air quality, water contaminants, workplace conditions, or geographic location. Looking across these inputs helps identify patterns associated with individual susceptibility and protective factors. The resulting context can guide more individualized prevention and inform clinical or public-health decision-making.
Personalized Health Assessment is useful when a decision must account for individual susceptibility instead of relying solely on population-level averages. In environmental health, its findings can support targeted prevention, clinical decisions, and public-health decisions. It is also relevant when monitoring how changing environments affect a person’s health over time.
Air quality, water contaminants, occupational conditions, and geographic location provide distinct environmental contexts for an assessment. Considering these domains can help relate a person’s surroundings to potential health outcomes and reveal which risks or protective factors deserve attention. The relevant domain depends on the exposure information available and the individual’s health needs.