How’s Your Health? Online Survey How’s Your Health is an easy 10-minute online survey that asks questions about your health and your health concerns.
At the end of the survey, you will receive a summary of results that you can share with your doctor, along with useful health information based on your responses.

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What is How's Your Health?

Why was the How's Your Health Web site developed?

Who can take the How's Your Health survey?

Why participate in the survey?

What happens when you are done with the survey?

What is How’s Your Health?

How’s Your Health aims to increase the number of people who take steps to prevent and manage their own health care conditions. It also provides doctors, other health care providers, businesses and the community with information and tools to improve health care.  

How’s Your Health encourages you to complete this free, confidential 10-minute survey. After completing the survey, you will receive a summary of your responses and links to health information that focuses on your health concerns.

If you are living with a chronic disease, you also will get a list of important questions to ask your doctor. Participants are encouraged to take this summary “action form” to their next doctor’s appointment.

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Why was the How’s Your Health Web site developed?

The How’s Your Health Web site was developed to provide user-friendly health information to help people become more involved in preventing and managing health care problems.

The How’s Your Health Web site also can help you work more closely with your doctor and take better care of yourself. Often, people forget or don’t want to bring up problems and concerns during doctor visits. The summary action form you will receive after you take the survey plainly states your most important concerns, to help make it easier to talk to your doctor about them. Research shows that when a doctor spends three minutes talking about a patient’s concerns (such as the need to give up smoking) it is much more effective than most other ways of changing health habits. 

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Who can take the How’s Your Health survey?

How’s Your Health? is available to people of any age (a child’s survey can be completed by a parent or guardian).  The survey is tailored to the age and sex of the person taking it.

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Why participate in the survey?

People who complete the survey will receive user-friendly, well-tested, evidence-based health information and tools to help prevent and manage health care problems. Doctors’ offices can benefit from seeing a summary action form listing specific problems and concerns that their patients may not want to bring up or often forget.

Doctors' offices, hospitals, employer groups, and the community also can use the collected information to help build a foundation for quality improvement efforts. 

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What happens when you are done with the survey?

Preferred Care keeps individual answers to the survey completely private and confidential, aggregate (group-level) information is studied to help understand how to improve the quality of the community’s health care services. Doctors’ offices and large businesses can also receive the group-level information to help them better understand the health care needs of their patients/employees.

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Last updated: November 1, 2006