Family health management refers to the comprehensive management of health factors with the family as the unit, which is a strategic behavior of combining preventive medicine with clinical medicine and involving the whole people. The 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". Extended data health management is a concept (Managed Care) first put forward in the United States in the late 1950s. Its core content is that medical insurance institutions and medical service institutions can effectively control the occurrence or development of diseases by systematically managing their medical insurance customers (including patients with diseases or high-risk groups) or medical service customers, thus significantly reducing the accident probability and actual medical expenses, thus reducing 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.
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.
Relatively narrow sense of health management refers to the establishment of exclusive health records according to the results of physical examination, evaluation of health status, and targeted suggestions on personalized health management (prescription). On this basis, professionals provide one-on-one consultation and follow-up consultation services, so that customers can obtain comprehensive health maintenance and security services from social, psychological, environmental, nutritional and sports perspectives.