Health management was first put forward in the United States in the late 1950s. In order to reduce the accident probability and actual medical expenses, and reduce the loss of medical insurance, medical insurance institutions systematically manage the health of their medical insurance customers (including patients with diseases or high-risk groups) to effectively control the occurrence or development of diseases.
With the continuous enrichment and development of practical business content, health management has gradually developed into a set of professional system schemes and operations, and professional health management companies have begun to appear, which are different from traditional medical institutions such as hospitals and provide systematic and professional health management services as third-party service institutions and medical insurance institutions or directly facing personal needs.
In the United States, health management has developed rapidly. 77 million Americans enjoy medical services in about 650 health management organizations, and more than 90 million Americans have become users of health management plans. Health management rose in the United States in the 1980s, and then developed countries such as Germany, Britain, Finland, France and Japan actively followed suit and implemented health management.
Theoretical basis of health management;
First, health risk factors can be intervened.
Health risk factors refer to factors that can increase the possibility of disease or death, or increase the probability of adverse health consequences, including environmental factors, biological genetic factors, medical and health service factors, behavior and lifestyle factors.
Second, the occurrence and development of diseases can be controlled.
It can interfere with the occurrence, development and risk factors of diseases, especially chronic non-communicable diseases. Generally speaking, it is from health to low-risk state, then to high-risk state, and then early lesions, clinical symptoms, and finally disease.
This process can be very long, often taking several years to more than ten years or even decades, and it is highly related to human genetic factors, social and natural environmental factors, medical conditions and personal lifestyle, and the process of change is not easy to detect.
Third, the purpose.
By systematically detecting and evaluating the risk factors of possible diseases, health management helps people to carry out targeted preventive intervention before the disease forms, which can successfully block, delay or even reverse the occurrence and development of diseases and achieve the purpose of maintaining health.