Health management mainly studies the basic knowledge and skills of basic medicine, preventive medicine, health management and health psychology, and carries out health consultation, health guidance and health management in medical service institutions such as community health service centers and health examination centers. For example, according to the results of health examination, health records are established, health status is evaluated, and personalized health management schemes are formulated.
Professional introduction
Health management was 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, significantly reduce the probability of accidents and actual medical expenses through systematic health management of their medical insurance customers (including patients with diseases or high-risk groups) or medical service customers, 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.
In a relatively narrow sense, health management refers to the establishment of exclusive health records according to the results of physical examination, the evaluation of health status, and the proposal of personalized health management (prescription). Accordingly, professionals provide one-on-one consultation and follow-up consultation services, so that customers can obtain comprehensive health maintenance and security services from the perspectives of society, psychology, environment, nutrition and sports.
Curriculum system
Introduction to management, introduction to traditional Chinese medicine, introduction to basic medicine, preventive medicine, health statistics, pharmacology, health management, health information management, health laws and regulations, and health psychology: Chinese massage, health information management, health management of traditional Chinese medicine, and health rehabilitation technology of traditional Chinese medicine.
Main courses: introduction to clinical medicine, health statistical methods, nutrition and health, drugs and health, environment and occupational health, health assessment technology, rehabilitation and Chinese medicine foundation, health law practice, health management technology, health assessment technology, health education and health promotion, treatment and prevention of common health problems, etc.
Training objectives
This major cultivates all-round development of morality, intelligence, physique and aesthetics, has good professional ethics and humanistic quality, adapts to the development of health service industry, grasps basic theoretical knowledge of health management, basic theoretical knowledge of medicine, knowledge of preventive medicine, knowledge of traditional Chinese medicine, nutrition and exercise guidance, has good language expression, communication and coordination, computer office, health information collection and health risk assessment, and is engaged in individual/group health information monitoring, health consultation and health.
Health management characteristics
Health management focuses on controlling health risk factors, including variable risk factors and immutable risk factors. The former is a controllable factor that changes through its own behavior, such as unreasonable diet, lack of exercise, smoking and drinking, and abnormal index factors such as hypertension, hyperglycemia and hyperlipidemia. The latter is a factor beyond personal control, such as age, gender, family history and so on.
The service process of health management is a cyclical operation cycle. The implementation links of health management are health monitoring (collecting personal health information of clients is the premise and foundation for continuous implementation of health management), health assessment (predicting the risks of various diseases is the fundamental guarantee for implementing health management) and health intervention (helping clients to take actions to control risk factors is the ultimate goal of implementing health management). In the whole service process, through these three links, we will continue to circulate to reduce or reduce the number and level of risk factors and maintain a low risk level.
Employment direction
Mainly for treatment (rest) institutions, general hospitals, health examination centers, health management companies and community health service centers, engaged in health information collection, health risk assessment, interpretation of physical examination reports and health promotion reports, and health follow-up.
Professional cohesion
An example of continuing undergraduate major: global health.