Abstract
As the basis of health social support system, the information system has become more and more important as an integrated infrastructure, because the evaluation and management of the support must be done for maximum usage of limited source. First of all, the purpose of this study was to clarify the actual system of health social information services and policies, and also the factors related to the useful utilization of information interfaces. And measures toward effective and efficient health social information system based on useful technologies were also proposed. The subjects were 84 local government who expressed to have social information system related to health welfare card system. The content of interview was consisted information hardware system, information infrastructure, media type, and software included menu category and its purpose. The interfaces of information infrastructure was the valuable view point for evaluation. The hesitation due to critical interface such as user interface was one of the critical issues. The reason why the elderly hesitate to use the information services were their ignorance about its availability and utilization, and the complexity for getting the appropriate information. Implementation of the information system as the effective way to make everyone take care of their own health based on new card system, will likely promote health motivation and steer the self oriented useful information services. So we developed the concept of "Health Promotion Incentive Card" system as the effective way to make everyone take care of their own health. The main three objectives for the Health Promotion Incentive Card are as follows ; (1) Health motivation by health information indices ; (2) Health enlightenment by health information indices ; (3) Health policy transfiguration by health information indices. The Health Promotion Incentive card consists of the indicator for scoring their healthy actions and health indices. The illumination area is divided into five categories, which is combined with nourishment, exercise, rest, health management, and social life activities. There will be possibly every reason to expect that health motivation driving force and concrete actions will promoted. Further research must be done to evaluate the usefulness of the information comprehensively within total health social support.
