Occupation definition: a professional who is engaged in monitoring, analyzing, evaluating, maintaining and promoting human or individual health.
Mainly engaged in work including:
(1) Collect and manage health information of individuals or groups; (2) Assessing the health and disease risks of individuals or groups; (3) Health consultation and guidance for individuals or groups; (4) making health promotion plans for individuals or groups; (5) Health maintenance of individuals or groups; (6) Health education and promotion for individuals or groups; (7) Research and development of health management technology; (9) Evaluate the effectiveness of the application of health management technology.
Career profile:
Improving people's health security level is an important symbol of building a well-off society in an all-round way. To build a well-off society in an all-round way, we must first keep healthy. People's health is not healthy, even if the material wealth is rich, it can't be regarded as a well-off society. With the increase of life expectancy and chronic diseases, how to use limited resources to improve the quality of life and minimize the social burden is a major challenge we are facing in the new era. According to a research report of the World Health Organization, one third of human diseases can be avoided through preventive health care, one third can be effectively controlled through early detection, and one third can improve the treatment effect through effective communication of information. Therefore, our maintenance of health is not only the treatment of diseases, but also the "prevention" before diseases come.
Health management is a personalized health affairs management service based on personal health records. Based on modern biomedical and information management technology models, it provides comprehensive health protection services for everyone from social, psychological and biological perspectives. It helps and guides people to master and maintain their health successfully and effectively. However, the traditional medical professionals can no longer meet the growing demand for health care services. Therefore, it is necessary for health managers to become an independent profession.
As a discipline and industry, health management occurred in the last twenty or thirty years. It was first popular in Europe and America, and gradually formed an independent industry. The rise of this industry is due to the needs of the market, especially the extension of people's life expectancy and the increase of various chronic diseases, and the resulting medical expenses continue to rise sharply. The need to control medical expenses and ensure personal health benefits has strongly promoted the development of health management.
Health management has just started in China, and it is a sunrise industry. At present, there are only a few professional health management institutions in Chinese mainland, most of which are affiliated departments of hospitals and physical examination centers. There is no accurate data on the number of health management employees. It is estimated that there are more than 654.38+million people in China, and only two-tenths of the total number of people enjoy health management services from scientific specialties, which is far from the fact that 70% of the residents in the United States can receive perfect services from health management companies or enterprises.
With the acceleration of population aging, the extension of life expectancy and the rise of chronic diseases, people's demand for health maintenance and improvement will increase day by day. The traditional medical service model can no longer meet the needs of development. The emerging health management industry will have a very broad development prospect. Establishing a professional health management team is of great significance for improving and improving the physical quality of Chinese citizens and building a well-off society in an all-round way.
Career prospect analysis
Sub-health diffusion calls for professionals.
Han Ping, director of the physical examination center of Xiaotangshan Hospital, believes that the real concept of health management should include the assessment and intervention of physical risk factors, so physical examination is only the first step of health management and a relatively simple step. After physical examination, if a professional health manager provides health planning for healthy or sub-healthy people, evaluates personal health risks, and provides targeted disease prevention and guidance on how to eliminate risk factors on the basis of physical examination results, it will be more helpful to manage the health of the objects.
As long as healthy people spend 1%-5% of medical expenses on health investment and disease prevention, the market will be very large. So many hospitals, physical examination centers and community health service centers in China need professional health managers.
In sharp contrast to the market demand, according to Huang Jianshi, Dean of Continuing Education College of Peking Union Medical College, there is no real health manager in China. Because in the United States, where health is developed, people engaged in health management have to undergo all-round training in nutrition, kinematics, psychology, epidemiology and so on. From this point of view, the requirements for health managers are actually very high, while most health managers in China are transformed from excellent clinicians, and their knowledge needs to be compound and systematic. A new type of health manager produced by professional training is bound to make great achievements.
Practitioners say
Work affects hundreds of people at a time.
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Before entering this field, I worked as a clinician for over 30 years. It is difficult to awaken people's health awareness when they first enter the business. After SARS in 2003, people's demand for health became more and more urgent, and it was much easier to popularize the concept of health management.
I used to be a clinician to see more than 100 people every month, but after being a health manager, giving a lecture may affect hundreds of people's health views and make their health conditions develop in a better direction, so I feel more and more noble in this profession. In addition, becoming a health manager has a great influence on yourself. Now I have a regular physical examination every year, and then I give myself some evaluations to remind myself of what problems I need to pay attention to.
Rising background
The prevention of diseases promotes the emergence of occupations.
According to Yang Qi, with the strengthening of health awareness, more and more people realize that daily prevention is more important than treatment, and regular physical examination has even become a trend. However, at present, most of the "health management institutions" in China are the extension and development of the physical examination departments of traditional medical institutions. In this regard, Li Ming, executive director of Beijing Boyi Meihua Health Management Co., Ltd. said that traditional institutions are good at detecting and treating diseases, but they can't tell physical examiners which bad habits may become health hazards, where the diseases may appear in the future, or how to adjust their diet, sleep and exercise strategies. Because of this, many people who have participated in physical examination know that there are hidden dangers in their health, but they are helpless, which leads to tragedy.
In this regard, Huang Jianshi expressed the same view. According to reports, existing epidemiological and public health studies have proved that 70% of chronic diseases can be controlled through prevention. Now people should not only know the nature of chronic diseases that may happen to them, but also know that their needs call for new health managers.
Salary expectation
The starting salary is 3000 yuan per month.
Zhou Ping, general manager of Boyi Meihua Health Management Co., Ltd. predicts that the starting salary of health managers may not be very high, about 3,000 to 5,000 yuan. With the realization of market-oriented competition and consumers' gradual familiarity and trust in this profession, health managers will find their own loyal customers, and their salaries will rise, reaching a high income level.
According to the reporter's investigation, at present, some high-level private health consultants are actually health managers, and their cost of serving customers can be as high as 30 thousand yuan a year, which is not much for five customers a year. Therefore, the salary expectation of health managers is considerable.