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. In China, health management services are provided by qualified "health managers".
After the 13th Five-Year Plan, China put forward the construction of "great health", and put improving the health management level of the whole people at the national strategic level. According to the Plan, people's health will change from medical treatment to prevention, and people's awareness of self-health management will continue to improve. Health management is a concept (managed medicine) first put forward in the United States in the late 1950s.
Its core content: medical insurance institutions and medical service institutions systematically manage the health of their medical insurance customers (including patients with diseases or high-risk groups) or medical service customers, so as to effectively control the occurrence or development of diseases, significantly reduce the accident probability and actual medical expenses, and further reduce the loss of medical insurance claims.
The original concept of managed medical care in the United States also includes the signing of the most economical and applicable prescription agreement between medical insurance institutions and medical institutions to ensure that medical insurance customers can enjoy lower medical expenses, thus reducing the compensation burden of medical insurance companies.
There is a problem:
Health management is still a new concept in China. The service target of health management is narrow, mainly concentrated in people with higher economic income. Public awareness is not high, and some concepts of health management have not been accepted by the public.
For example, some people can spend tens of thousands of dollars a year on smoking, and it is "too expensive" to spend hundreds on health management. Once they get sick, they can only spend huge sums of money to seek experts and famous doctors, but the fact is that early prevention of health management can make them spend less.