Differences between American Health Management Specialty and Public Health

Subject introduction: PublicHealth is a subject that provides disease prevention and health promotion for the public by organizing social resources and applying technologies and means such as preventive medicine, health promotion, environmental sanitation and social science. Analysis of population health status and health threats is the basis of public health science. The definition of public can range from a small village to a continent, while the definition of health can range from physical health, mental health and social happiness. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), public health science is interdisciplinary. For example, epidemiology, biostatistics and health services are closely related to public health science. In addition, public health science also involves environmental health, behavioral health, health economics, public policy, occupational safety and other fields. The difference between health management and public health is that health management aims at preventing and controlling the occurrence and development of diseases, reducing medical expenses and improving the quality of life, educating individuals and groups, improving their awareness and level of self-management, and continuously improving the health risk factors related to their lifestyles through health information collection, health testing, health assessment, personalized monitoring management scheme and health intervention. The main courses of public health include: public health research methods, introduction to health environment, introduction to public health and health promotion, epidemiology, public health system, social perspective of population health and biostatistics.

The main courses of health management are: health economics, clinical leadership and management, health and financial management, basic health policy, epidemiology, biostatistics, and public health system methods.

Employment field and career direction: Australian graduates have diversified employment directions, including public health or clinical research, government departments or non-governmental organizations, public sector management, international health, policy formulation, health promotion and medical care, and can be engaged in investigating infectious diseases, overcoming mental illness, implementing nutrition plans, research policies and public health management. If graduates choose to return to China for employment, their potential jobs can be as follows:

1. Health graduates from hospitals can work in the departments of prevention and health care, medical record statistics and information statistics in some large general hospitals, and they can also be researchers or managers in the scientific research departments and education departments of hospitals. The specific work includes the development, management and supervision of medical projects.

2. Scientific research institutions

Public health-related scientific research units and institutions, such as CDC, medical supervision institute, scientific research units, etc. According to the specific professional direction, the industries you can engage in are also slightly different. If it is toxicology, environmental hygiene and food hygiene, you can go to biotechnology companies related to medicine and food safety; If you study statistics and epidemic diseases, chronic diseases and maternal and child health care, you can go to scientific research units and medical units.

3. Medical publishing houses are engaged in editing medical publications in publishing houses and magazines in related medical and health industries, which plays a role in promoting medical knowledge and raising residents' health awareness.

4. Civil servants National civil servants or local civil servants. For example, the Ministry of Health, the Population and Family Planning Commission and the Food and Drug Administration are three options that students majoring in public health can consider.

5, medical insurance company statistics and population disease prevention talents can work in medical insurance companies. Especially for the evaluation and approval of medical insurance, the demand for talents is relatively large.