Presentation of Health Risk Assessment tool for Woman and Heart
Disease
Name
Course
Instructor
Date
Reading level
The health assessment tool is used among
women aged more than 20 years
The level of education is not a concern
A medical practitioner normally carries out
the assessment
In case of a self-care tool, the person should
be literate
Appropriateness of intended audience
Most women are literature and can therefore use the tool
Those at risk are many
Some of them smoke and have high level of cholesterol
Comprehensive description of the reading level of the tool
The tool assess various health aspects on an individual’s
which includes
Age, gender, smoking status,
Diabetic, angina or heart attack in a first degree relative
BMI, Systolic blood pressure, HDL cholesterol
Self-assigned ethnicity, Rheumatoid arthritis, Chronic kidney
disease
The person is required to have some level of education to
understand how it functions
The person is required to understand what different kinds of
diseases means
The results of the assessment
Gender is women
Aged 30 years
Total cholesterol 169mg/dl
HDL cholesterol 42mg/DL
Smoked for 6 years
Had suffered from high blood pressure
Not diagnosed with any heart disease before
Rationale for the tools appropriateness for an
intended audience
The tool works over a wider range of years from
20 years
It helps to provide an estimate of the health risks
among women in the coming 10 years because of
frequent updates the tools take account of
changes in the population
Some of the assessment tools are not reliable and
effective
References
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Parikh, S. et al. (2013). Assessment of cardiovascular disease risk by using Framingham risk
equation amongst the residents of Ahmedabad city. National Journal of Community Medicine,
4(3): 392-397.
Patient. Co.uk. (2014). Cardiovascular risk assessment.