2012 Volume 39 Issue 5 Pages 627-633
Health guidance is to correspond to health problems of the insured individuals. However, eligibles for Healthcare Advice with Particular Focus on the Metabolic Syndrome are limited to those with metabolic problems. Its advice items are defined with a central focus on exercise and dietary instructions, and sleep is rather viewed as less important. In many cases, the healthcare advices often entirely focus on metabolism even to the mentally disordered, without precious opportunities of the health guidance being well-utilized. Those cases are assumed as the adverse effects for public institutions to avoid from adding more assistance grant funding to Medical Care System for People Aged 75 and over. At the same time, in order to evaluate the healthcare advice program, we need to evaluate satisfaction and attainment levels of those who had the healthcare advices. And, we do also need to evaluate the annual transitions of the morbidity and the rate of abnormal values of lifestyle related diseases, not only by confining the target to the metabolic-syndrome related or the potentials, but by setting it to the entire group members.
For the next approach, we need to implement and deploy Health Checkups and Healthcare Advice with a Particular Focus on the Metabolic Syndrome into the traditional health management operation. The effective and efficient approach for this purpose would be highly expected.
