System and method for assessing individual healthfulness and for providing health-enhancing behavioral advice and promoting adherence thereto
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1. A system for assessing individual healthfulness and for providing health-enhancing advice, comprising:
- a. at least one user computer which provides user access to a server system;
said server system including a question database containing a plurality of health risk assessment questions, a feedback database containing content for each of a plurality of user groups, and a processor, b. where said server system communicates with a user using one of said at least one user computers to access said server system;
said server system presenting at least one of said health risk assessment questions to said user and then presenting additional questions to said user, said additional questions presented dependant on how said user answered previous questions;
said server system placing said user into one of said plurality of user groups, said placement dependant upon how said user answered said questions presented to said user; and
where said server system provides health-enhancing feedback advice to said user, which advice is determined by the user group said user has been placed into.
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Abstract
The present invention relates to a system and method for assessing individual healthfulness and for providing health-enhancing behavioral advice and promoting adherence thereto. More specifically, the invention relates to a system and method for eliciting one or more responses from an individual pertaining to the individual'"'"'s health; for assessing, based on the responses, the individual'"'"'s health; and for providing the individual advice concerning behavior to enhance the individual'"'"'s health, and in which the advice is provided in a form and manner promoting adherence thereto.
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1. A system for assessing individual healthfulness and for providing health-enhancing advice, comprising:
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a. at least one user computer which provides user access to a server system;
said server system including a question database containing a plurality of health risk assessment questions, a feedback database containing content for each of a plurality of user groups, and a processor,b. where said server system communicates with a user using one of said at least one user computers to access said server system;
said server system presenting at least one of said health risk assessment questions to said user and then presenting additional questions to said user, said additional questions presented dependant on how said user answered previous questions;
said server system placing said user into one of said plurality of user groups, said placement dependant upon how said user answered said questions presented to said user; and
where said server system provides health-enhancing feedback advice to said user, which advice is determined by the user group said user has been placed into. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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11. A method for assessing individual healthfulness and for providing health-enhancing behavioral advice, comprising the steps of:
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a. having a user access a web site using a secure logon;
b. presenting to said user a question set having at least one question therein;
c. receiving said user'"'"'s response to said question set;
d. dependant upon said user'"'"'s response to said question set, repeating steps b and c until said user can be placed into one of a plurality of mutually exclusive user groups;
e. optionally presenting to said user additional question sets dependant on said user'"'"'s user group placement;
f. receiving said user'"'"'s response to any questions presented to said user in step e; and
,g. providing health-enhancing feedback advice to said user, which advice is determined by said user'"'"'s user group and said user'"'"'s responses in step f. - View Dependent Claims (12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. A method for assessing individual healthfulness and for providing health-enhancing behavioral advice, comprising the steps of:
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a. providing to an individual an initial set of one or more questions concerning the individual'"'"'s healthfulness;
b. receiving the individual'"'"'s response to the initial set of one or more questions;
c. partitioning the set of possible responses to the initial set of one or more questions into a multiplicity of mutually exclusive groups;
d. assigning the individual'"'"'s response to the initial set of one or more questions to one of the multiplicity of mutually exclusive groups;
e. providing to the individual one or more second-tier health-related questions, said one or more second-tier questions tailored to the healthfulness of a typical member of said one of the multiplicity of mutually exclusive groups;
f. receiving the individual'"'"'s response to the one or more second-tier questions;
g. partitioning the set of possible responses to the one or more second-tier questions into a further multiplicity of mutually exclusive groups;
h. assigning the individual'"'"'s response to the one or more second-tier questions to one of the further multiplicity of mutually exclusive groups;
i. providing to the individual one or more behavior-related questions, said one or more behavior-related questions tailored to one or more health-related behavioral needs of a typical member of said one of the further multiplicity of mutually exclusive groups to which the individual'"'"'s response to the one or more behavior-related questions has been assigned;
j. receiving the individual'"'"'s response to the one or more behavior-related questions;
k. partitioning the set of possible responses to the one or more behavior-related questions into a final multiplicity of mutually exclusive groups;
l. assigning the individual'"'"'s response to the one or more behavior-related questions to one of the final multiplicity of mutually exclusive groups; and
,m. and providing to the individual behavioral advice based on the final multiplicity of mutually exclusive groups containing the individual. - View Dependent Claims (20, 21, 22, 23)
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