Health promotion practitioner support apparatus and computer readable medium storing health promotion practitioner support program

• US 20020184056A1
• Filed: 05/30/2001
• Published: 12/05/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 05/30/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Stanford University
• Original Assignee: Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation, Stanford University
• Inventors: Yoshikawa, Hiroshi, Tsuboi, Toshiaki, Nishimura, Yumiko, Toriu, Kouhei, Takada, Tomoshi, Chikamoto, Yousuke
• Application Number:
  US09/870,147
• Publication Number:
  US 20020184056A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/00 ICT specially adapted for therapies or health-improving plans, e.g. for handling prescriptions, for steering therapy or for monitoring patient compliance

Abstract

A health promotion practitioner support apparatus is provided. The health promotion practitioner support apparatus includes a part storing scenarios which includes health promotion information and health promotion timing for each of levels of readiness for change; a part obtaining data on lifestyles and the level of readiness for change of a client; a part preparing a health promotion schedule of the client from the scenario and the data, and outputting the health promotion schedule; and a part outputting health promotion information for the client according to operation to the health promotion schedule.

Claims

1. A health promotion practitioner support apparatus used for supporting health promotion for preventing diseases caused by lifestyles and for promoting and maintaining health, comprising:

a part storing scenarios which includes health promotion information and health promotion timing for each of levels of readiness for change;

a part obtaining data on lifestyles and said level of readiness for change of a client;

a part preparing a health promotion schedule of said client from said scenario and said data, and outputting said health promotion schedule; and

a part outputting health promotion information for said client according to operation to said health promotion schedule.

2. The health promotion practitioner support apparatus as claimed in claim 1, said part obtaining data comprising:

a part outputting information used for interviewing said client; and

a part receiving responses of said client.

3. The health promotion practitioner support apparatus as claimed in claim 2, said part outputting information used for interviewing said client comprising:

a part outputting question information for checking said level of readiness for change; and

a part determining said level of readiness for change according to a response to said question information and determining information to be output hereafter according to said level of readiness for change;

wherein said health promotion practitioner support apparatus determines said health promotion information according to responses of said client.

4. The health promotion practitioner support apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein said levels of readiness for change include an unconcerned stage, a precontemplation stage, a contemplation stage and a preparation stage.

5. The health promotion practitioner support apparatus as claimed in claim 1, wherein:

said health promotion schedule is displayed as a screen of a calendar format on a display part of said health promotion practitioner support apparatus or on a terminal which can access said health promotion practitioner support apparatus; and

a number of clients is displayed in each day of the calendar format if said clients should receive health promotion on said day, and health promotion details are displayed for each of said clients by selecting said day.

6. The health promotion practitioner support apparatus as claimed in claim 5, wherein data for forming said health promotion schedule includes histories of provided health promotion.

7. The health promotion practitioner support apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a part storing plurality of kinds of health promotion information, said plurality of kinds of health promotion information including interview health promotion information, telephone health promotion information, and documents to be sent physically or by electronic mail; and

wherein said part outputting health promotion information outputs said health promotion information by means suitable for one of said kinds of health promotion information.

8. The health promotion practitioner support apparatus as claimed in claim 1, further comprising:

a part obtaining results of medical examination; and

a part selecting clients for preventing a specific disease by using said results.

9. A computer readable medium storing program code for causing a computer to perform processes used for supporting health promotion for preventing diseases caused by lifestyles and for promoting and maintaining health, said computer readable medium comprising:

program code means for obtaining data on lifestyles and a level of readiness for change of a client;

program code means for obtaining a scenario which includes health promotion information and health promotion timing for each of levels of readiness for change;

program code means for preparing a health promotion schedule of said client from said scenario and said data, and outputting said health promotion schedule; and

program code means for outputting health promotion information for said client according to operation to said health promotion schedule.

10. The computer readable medium as claimed in claim 9, said program code means for obtaining data comprising:

program code means for outputting information used for interviewing said client; and

program code means for receiving responses of said client.

11. The computer readable medium as claimed in claim 10, said program code means for outputting information used for interviewing said client comprising:

program code means for outputting question information for checking said level of readiness for change; and

program code means for determining said level of readiness for change according to a response to said question information and determining information to be output hereafter according to said level of readiness for change;

wherein said computer determines said health promotion information according to responses of said client.

12. The computer readable medium as claimed in claim 9, wherein said levels of readiness for change include an unconcerned stage, a precontemplation stage, a contemplation stage and a preparation stage.

13. The computer readable medium as claimed in claim 9, wherein:

said health promotion schedule is displayed as a screen of a calendar format on a display part of said computer or on a terminal which can access said computer; and

a number of clients is displayed in each day of the calendar format if said clients should receive health promotion on said day, and health promotion details are displayed for each of said clients by selecting said day.

14. The computer readable medium as claimed in claim 13, wherein data for forming said health promotion schedule includes histories of provided health promotion.

15. The computer readable medium as claimed in claim 9, further comprising:

program code means for obtaining one of a plurality of kinds of health promotion information, said plurality of kinds of health promotion information including interview health promotion information, telephone health promotion information, and documents to be sent physically or by electronic mail; and

wherein said health promotion information is output by means suitable for one of said kinds of health promotion information.

16. The computer readable medium as claimed in claim 9, further comprising:

program code means for obtaining results of medical examination; and

program code means for selecting clients for preventing a specific disease by using said results.

17. A method of supporting health promotion for preventing diseases caused by lifestyles and for promoting and maintaining health by using a health promotion practitioner support apparatus, said method comprising the steps of:

obtaining data on lifestyles and a level of readiness for change of a client;

obtaining a scenario which includes health promotion information and health promotion timing for each of levels of readiness for change;

preparing a health promotion schedule of said client from said scenario and said data, and outputting said health promotion schedule; and

outputting health promotion information for said client according to operation to said health promotion schedule.