Healthcare Manager

Health managers perform tasks in prevention and health promotion, health reporting and evaluation. They develop concepts for how specific target groups can be motivated to take preventative and health-promoting or sustaining measures. They conceive and look after e.g. public relations campaigns or work on educational campaigns. As part of project or organizational development, health managers look after health promotion in companies, kindergartens, schools or communities, create exercise programs and conduct health training and counseling. In addition, they coordinate health promotion and health promotion measures and network them with each other.

Health managers find employment primarily

• in health care facilities, e.g. Clinics, health centers
• in social care institutions, e.g. Nursing Homes
• health insurance companies
• at medical associations and associations of statutory health insurance physicians
• at health authorities
• for consumer organizations
• at universities

In addition, they also find employment

• for tour operators in the segment Health Tourism
• in wellness and leisure facilities

The salary level for Healthcare Manager in Germany is: from 3686 up to 6119 EUR per month

Why is?

Health managers plan, control and monitor processes in health promotion and health management. They seek to increase the acceptance of the issues of prevention and health in society and to empower people to influence the maintenance and improvement of their health.

Field of tension health care

Can health insurance bonus programs motivate their members to live a healthy lifestyle? How can negative factors such as stress and one-sided stress in everyday working life be reduced? How can children and adolescents be moved to a healthy and active way of life? Goal is the best possible health care of the population at a reasonable cost. Bringing this field of tension into balance for all involved is, among other things. Task of health managers.

In health management

Health managers plan and design measures and strategies for health promotion and prevention under consideration of economic contexts. For example, they create target group-specific prevention and exercise programs, such as spine training for office workers. They also do practical consulting work. They inform individuals or groups, for example, about consumer-relevant topics such as toxins in food and everyday objects, or draw attention to the health risks of stress, improper diet or smoking. The work of health managers aims at the well-being and health of consumers or patients. They strive to provide attractive health services and education, e.g. to convince people seeking advice through expert opinions, information events and discussions that healthy behavior and lifestyles are an important contribution to health protection. With their work, they may also trigger social discussions and changes. The networking of offers, for example to create synergy effects, can be the task of health managers.

In health and rehabilitation facilities, health managers develop e.g. Health-oriented measures and individual long-term therapies with, in health insurance they look after the customer hotlines or develop customer information such as health brochures, websites or magazines. For publications in the press, radio or television, they compile information materials and prepare them. In addition, they perform organizational and administrative tasks.

Other tasks

Health managers also control the success of their actions. For example, they check if an offer was effective and economical. The calculation and billing of such measures may also be part of their area of ​​responsibility. In Human Resources, they are responsible, for example, for the deployment of personnel and the further training of employees.

Those who have completed a master's program often assume management positions. For independent scientific activities i.d.R. In addition, a doctorate is required. Health managers then work out, e.g. Studies on the health effects of social developments or individual behaviors.