How To Interpret Your Health Assessment
QHHL 
May 03 2018
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Undergoing regular health assessments is an essential step in taking control of your health. This process will highlight any problem areas that need to be addressed and suggest avenues for future change or monitoring. But understanding what measures to take can be more complicated if the results of your health assessment are relatively unclear. And if you find yourself in this situation, you need to know what to do next to safeguard your health into the future.
At certain points in your life you will probably become concerned about your health and seek a professional assessment. At your request, your doctor will refer you to specialists where you will undergo a series of complicated and increasingly expensive procedures. And at the end, you will have a detailed assessment of your overall health and the health of specific systems. There are three possibilities at this stage of the process, including the following:
Depending on the results of your health assessment, you will need to take action at this point.
The path you take after your health care assessment isn’t always clear. If the testing reveals that you’re healthy, you can obviously go on with your life. And if signs of disease were revealed by the testing, you will need to undergo more testing to get a clinical diagnosis. Your path from there will be determined by your diagnosis.
But if you’re in the second group, with early signs of disease but no obvious problems, your next steps aren’t as clear. You could ask your doctor to refer you to other specialists for more tests. However, there are no guarantees that they will agree to do this if you don’t have a good reason for the referral. And even if your doctor agrees that you need more testing, there’s a good chance that further testing won’t show anything. So in the meantime, you have to wait until you get sick, or until you experience serious symptoms that your doctor can see and diagnose. This is not a very good outcome.
A second option is to undergo regular health assessments and constantly update your doctor’s understanding of your medical condition. This means you have to visit your doctor and other specialists on a regular basis and allow them to perform the same exhaustive, invasive and expensive exams. Doing this is just not feasible as it would it be incredibly expensive. An additional disadvantage is the fact that the health assessments would give you a false sense of security. This could result in you missing obvious signs of disease in the gaps between examinations. There is a better option.
If you’re concerned about your health because of the results of your health care assessment, the best option is for you to take control. Performing regular self-exams at home and monitoring troubling health symptoms or signs is the best way to do this. When you make health assessment activities a regular part of your daily, weekly and monthly schedule you become more aware of your body. You will notice troubling symptoms long before they develop into serious problems. And you will be able to return to your doctor with a comprehensive understanding of every aspect of your health and wellbeing.
Health care at home doesn’t have to be complex or expensive either. What’s important is that you come to understand your health better. Then you can return to your doctor when and if you develop clear signs of disease. This is the best strategy to ensure that your doctor takes you seriously and that you get the help you need.
If a recent health assessment has highlighted areas of concern, consider using HomeLab to keep track of your condition and any preventative measures you take. And if you see signs of a significant problem, you should check with your doctor as soon as possible.
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