Measuring health implication through awareness

Background and Objective: The scope of this undertaking uses (23) Hispanic participants, over the course of (12) months. The participants vary in age, education, occupation, gender and socio-economic stratifications. This program studies ways to positively affect health outcomes through education and accountability in an organizational setting.

Methods: All participants were to complete a Wellness Assessment, Physical Activity Readiness-Questionnaire (PAR-Q), Nutritional Block Score (NBS score), have their measurements taken (Stomach, arm, and thigh), weighed and self report their exercise minutes each month. The Body Mass Index of each participant was also taken. Participant are measured once a month.

Results: Expected results are to reduce the overall Body Mass Index by 3% by the end of the (12) month study and improve exercise minutes by 10% while developing more health conscious employees. Awareness and accountability positively affect health implications. The baseline numbers indicate that health perception drives action, the correlation between a participants BMI is closely related to their NBS score, the lower the NBS score the higher their BMI. However, participants with high physical activity (PA) minutes possess higher NBS scores in relation to their BMI.

Conclusion: Awareness can be a strong enough stimuli to evoke health actions. Having a sustainable way to measure health implications and having a level of accountability could improve community health whether in the workplace or in resident communities. Perception is a large factor for health change and health education. Improving perception of one's health can aid health consciousness and making appropriate changes to improve health.