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Objective This paper analyzes the current development trends and present situation of health management specialist in China and aims to lay a foundation for an exploration of the new domestic health management model. Methods Using "health management specialist" as a theme in the CNKI database from June 2005 to May 2018, 476 results were retrieved after refining, and the CiteSpace software was introduced to analyze the network, organization, and time development trends of the key words. The family group was analyzed and verified. Results Research on health management specialist showed an increasing trend between June 2005 and May 2018. By 2013, the annual number of articles fluctuated from 15 to 35. Since 2014, the growth rate has been relatively fast, with the highest volume in 2018, reaching 75; the top four high-frequency keywords were"health management specialist""health management""health examination"and"hierarchical medical system". The regional and institutional distribution of health management specialist is mainly in southern cities. Conclusions The related research on health management specialist shows an increasing trend year by year, and is focused on health management, physical examination, and grading treatment. The distribution of health management specialist in China is obviously uneven.
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Objective To survey the basic situation of trainees, the career awareness, the requirement for training, the problems in training, and the selection to the training institutions for the health management specialist trainees. Method Using the cluster sampling method, the trainees from two health management specialist training institutions in Hunan Province were randomly selected from Oct. 2012 to Jun. 2014, a total of 543 trainees were recruited from tertiary health management specialist trainees of 12 periods training a questionnaire survey was conducted. Result Totally 474 valid questionnaires were received, the effective rate was 87.3%. The trainees were mainly from college or undergraduate settings (366, 77.2%), medical professionals (430, 90.7%). The main purpose of the training was to improve their knowledge and technique. Students' demands in the theory content for health management training mainly included the health monitoring (396, 83.5%), health education and health promotion (384, 81.0%), health risk assessment and risk management (382, 80.6%), health intervention plan formulation, implementation and evaluation (360, 75.9%). Demand for practical skills was mainly for health monitoring (426, 89.9%), health risk assessment (424, 89.5%), health interventions (410, 86.5%), health plan formulation, implementation and evaluation (402, 84.8%), health management in the application of specific people (398, 84.0%), etc. At the same time, most of the students considered that for teaching arrangement equal attention to theory and practice should be paid (320, 67.5%). Conclusion Health management specialist training is still in its infancy in China;establishment and improvement of the relevant policies about health management system and forming a complete standard set of health management specialist training system are imminent.