Social Sciences in China (Chinese Edition)

No.8, 2019

 

The Concepts of Overall Health and Health Management from a Health Sociology Perspective

(Abstract)

 

Tang Jun and Li Jun

 

The “Healthy China 2030” Outline Program clearly states that health should hold a strategic position in development priorities. In daily life, however, health values, discourse and behavior form a special logical chain. The traditional idea that “health means not getting sick,” and that “the key to staying healthy is treating the sickness” hinders social policy approaches in the field of health. The World Health Organization defines health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being,” and health sociology has used this approach to reshape the systemic and holistic nature of the modern view of health. At the level of practice, health management in terms of health sociology should engage with the great majority of people who are healthy or have sub-optimum health, taking national action on health management and striving to realize the vision of assuring the people’s health in a way that covers the whole population in all respects throughout the life cycle.