Free Offer To Experience Prospective Health Planning Online.

Posted on | January 23, 2012 | Comments Off on Free Offer To Experience Prospective Health Planning Online.

Mike Magee

Imagine you are a college student, a nursing student or a medical student, and you were suddenly confronted with a newly conceived child, with a known due date who was totally your responsibility. And imagine that you were charged to create a 100+ year life plan for this child now that would allow her or him to reach full human potential. Finally, imagine that you were only given the opportunity to list 25 actions or interventions – and instructed that these must be the most important – those ideas that you believe will have the greatest positive impact on this new life. What would make it to your list?

What I have just described is the Healthy Person Project©– a new online program that we have now tested on three different populations: a group of 330 college students (mostly 1st year); a group of 200 graduate and undergraduate nursing students; and a group of 58 medical students.

Before I describe a few of the findings, let me offer you – as a member of HealthCommentary – the opportunity to try the program yourself, FOR FREE. It’s a very interesting experience and will take you only 1 hour online. (Sneak it into the work day or skip Facebook or TV tonight.) At the end, you are able to see your own results alongside cumulative group results presented in real time. All data is de-identified and privacy protected.

If you’d like to begin to feel what it would be like to be a personalized and prospective health planner and health coach, go to: http://www.healthypersonproject.org/welcome/freetrial and register.

If you enjoy the experience, and think it might have value at your organization (it’s currently being incorporated into health curriculum from high school up through health professional training programs), you can learn more about how to become involved at: Healthy Person Project.

Here are a few of the findings so far:

1. All three groups of students (college, nursing, medicine) agree in large numbers (>90%) that health is a human right.

2. They differ some what however in how to get there. Medical and nursing students showed a greater degree of “medicalization” of their strategic health plans than did the college students, categorizing their over 15,000 chosen actions as medical tests or procedures 43% and 46% of the time compared to college students 16%.

3. All three groups heavily weighted early childhood interventions. Of over 15,000 action entries, medical, nursing and college students timed their actions to occur between conception and 10 years of life 44%, 48%, and 39% respectively.

To view more results, go here.

For HealthCommentary, I’m Mike Magee.