Main description:

This book explores the practical aspects of setting up and assessing the quality of health checks. It is the first book to support clinicians and managers in enhancing the value of health checks in improving health outcomes, an increasingly essential goal for health services. The book will help maximise outcomes for individuals, families and employers by addressing each element within a health check from primary prevention, risk factor reduction and screening to early diagnosis and tertiary prevention. These are considered in relation to their ability to lead to subsequent improvements in individual health outcomes.

Contents:

Introduction. Overview of health checks and value in health care - issues and opportunities. Better value health checks: key considerations. Ensuring better value in risk factor reduction. Ensuring better value in cardiovascular health. Ensuring better value in musculo-skeletal health. Ensuring better value in gastro-intestinal health. Ensuring better value in metabolic health. Ensuring better value in mental health. Ensuring better value in men`s health. Ensuring better value in women`s health. Ensuring better value in millennials` health. Ensuring better value in older people`s health. Ensuring better value for individuals with co-existing health conditions. Ensuring better value for employers/organisations. Conclusion.