What is a Health Assessment? How Often Do You Need a Health Assessment?

If you are driving your car to a new destination, you are likely to check your GPS at regular intervals. If you have taken a wrong turn, you will course-correct rather than continue going down the wrong road. Similarly with our health, if we have something like a physical health GPS, it could help us to go down the right path of good health even if we start to move away for a little while.

What You Need to Know:

• What is a Health Assessment?
• How Often Do You Need a Health Assessment?
• #ABHIkaro Health Assessment

What is a Health Assessment?

• A health assessment is a medical check-up that assesses certain parameters. These parameters give you and your doctor a clear idea of how you are doing physically and if all your vital functions are within normal range or not. These findings are recorded in an MER or medical examination report. Some of the tests run during a health assessment include:
• Blood pressure
• Blood sugar
• Total cholesterol
• BMI (body mass index)
• HWR (height to weight ratio)
• Smoking status

These tests can tell a medical practitioner about your fitness levels and whether you are on the right path to good health or need to make some changes.

How Often Do You Need a Health Assessment?

If you are in relatively good health and have no major medical complaints, then one health assessment a year should be enough. Each year your results can be compared to those of the previous year and you can check if you have made progress, stayed the same or gone off track with your health. These results will help you understand where you need to make changes in your lifestyle and what those changes should be. For example, if you have gained weight, you now know that you need to be more careful with your diet and also get more exercise. However, if you are maintaining a healthy diet and exercising regularly, then your doctor might choose to run some more tests to check for other medical conditions like hypothyroidism or diabetes. In this way regular health assessments can help to detect new medical conditions at the earliest and treatment can begin.

#ABHIkaro Health Assessment

With Activ Health – Platinum Enhanced Plan you can avail a free annual health check-up benefit. You can keep track of your health and make sure that you are never on the wrong path again when it comes to leading your healthiest life. #ABHIkaro – Aditya Birla Health Insurance karo.

For more information on keeping fit visit the Fitness and Nutrition sections of the Activ Living Blog. You can also earn Active DayzTM through the Activ Health App and get rewarded for being active daily.