Health management refers to the process of overall management of health risk factors of individuals or groups. Its purpose is to mobilize the enthusiasm of individuals and collectives, effectively use limited resources, and achieve the greatest health effect.
Implementing health management is to change passive disease treatment into active health management, thus saving medical expenses and maintaining health. Health management is provided by a third-party service organization (professional health management company) other than traditional medical institutions such as hospitals, and the health management company and medical institutions are cooperative. The specific approach is to evaluate the health status, lifestyle and living environment of individuals and groups through professional health management companies, provide targeted health guidance for individuals and groups, and intervene in implementation.
Health management is a personalized health affairs management service based on personal health records. Based on modern nutrition and information management technology, it provides comprehensive health protection services for everyone from the perspectives of society, psychology, environment, nutrition and sports. It helps and guides people to master and maintain their health successfully and effectively. However, the traditional medical professionals can no longer meet the growing demand for health care services. Therefore, it is necessary for health managers to become an independent profession. Health management, health planning, medical examination, preventive medicine, companion medicine and medical services.
Lifestyle diseases are rising all over the world, and the medical expenses are unbearable, which brings a heavy burden to families and society. It is an urgent problem for us to manage the health and diseases of the whole people from doctors in big hospitals to communities.
First, the definition of health management
Health management is a process of overall management of health risk factors of individuals and groups. That is, the cycle of health risk factors inspection and monitoring (finding health problems) → evaluation (understanding health problems) → intervention (solving health problems) runs continuously. Intervention (solving health problems) is the core. The health management cycle will solve some health problems every week, and the continuous operation of the health management cycle will put the managed objects on the road to health. Its purpose is to mobilize the consciousness and initiative of the management object, effectively use the limited resources to achieve the greatest health improvement effect, protect and promote human health, and achieve the purpose of preventing and controlling the occurrence of diseases, improving the quality of life and reducing the burden of diseases.
Second, the scientific basis of health management
The occurrence and development of diseases and the intervention strategies of their risk factors are the scientific basis of health management. Individuals experience a development process from health to disease. Generally speaking, it develops from a low-risk state to a high-risk state, with early pathological changes, clinical symptoms and diseases. This process can be very long, often taking years or even decades. Most of the changes in the period are not easy to be noticed, and there is no clear boundary between stages. Targeted preventive intervention before the disease forms can successfully block, delay or even reverse the occurrence and development of the disease, thus achieving the purpose of maintaining health.
At present, the well-known chronic disease prevention and control system in China has been fully used in Beijing communities.
The system is completely based on the strategy of comprehensive prevention and treatment of chronic diseases proposed by WHO, that is, comprehensive intervention is carried out on the same risk factors of chronic diseases, giving priority to reducing premature death, disability and disease burden caused by such diseases. To provide a set of health file management and exercise and diet treatment plan generation system for medical workers engaged in lifestyle disease prevention and treatment. It is suitable for patients with chronic diseases such as type 2 diabetes, hypertension, hyperlipidemia and obesity. It is also suitable for exercise and diet guidance for healthy and normal adults. Combined with exercise energy monitor, the system can provide scientific and quantitative non-drug prevention and treatment scheme for patients with lifestyle diseases. It can help medical workers complete the following tasks:
1. Monitoring and follow-up of chronic diseases in community population and management of health records.
2. Track and evaluate the patient's condition, and record the physical and chemical indexes and their changing trends.
3. Deal with the complex calculation of dietary nutrient intake and nutritional diet.
4. According to the principles of exercise, diet and balance, provide patients with personalized exercise and diet analysis prescriptions.