Medical wellness

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Medical Wellness (Engl. The medical well-being ) is an anglicized , who as effective advertising slogan has found its way into the German language and especially in marketing is used the health care industry. Medical wellness is considered a specialization or variant of wellness , even if it is sometimes difficult to differentiate. The following content is associated with the term :

"Medical wellness includes health-scientifically supported measures for the sustainable improvement of the quality of life and the subjective feeling of health through self-dependent prevention and health promotion as well as the motivation for a health-conscious lifestyle. Medical wellness is not a medical treatment , but behavioral medicine . "

At the same time, the definition of the term is still in a dynamic process, which has hindered a general and consensual description of medical wellness so far. For this reason, efforts are being made by various groups and associations to formulate and agree on uniform guidelines and content standards. Since the term is not protected by law, it can be used for a variety of cures, medical applications and measures, including medical treatments, without a general performance review. For this reason, there are already fears that the term will be watered down, similar to the word " wellness ", and thus a loss of quality in terms of content in a strong growth market.

Status

Medical wellness has gained in importance in Germany in the past few years within certain vocational training courses. The Coburg University of Applied Sciences has been offering an integrative health promotion course since October 2007 , which also teaches medical wellness topics. In addition, medical wellness has become an economic factor in the health, tourism and leisure sectors with a growing range of travel and other types of events , some of which are strongly target group-oriented ( best ager ) .

See also

literature

  • Kirsten Hermes: "Wellness and Medical Wellness, From Health Concepts to Lifestyle Products, with a foreword by Prof. Dr. Dr. Karl Wehkamp, ​​Disserta Verlag, Hamburg, 2015, ISBN 978-3-95425-862-8
  • Meike Sonnenschein: Medical Wellness & Co. Preventive health tourism in Germany. Changing supply and demand. Pro Business, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-86805-968-7 .
  • Monika Rulle, Wolfgang Hoffmann & Karin Kraft: Success strategies in health tourism. Analyzes of the expectations and satisfaction of guests. Erich Schmidt-Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-503-12602-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Cassens, Manfred: Health tourism and tourist destination development. A textbook. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2013, p. 38.
  2. ↑ Rulle, Monika, Hoffmann, Wolfgang & Kraft, Karin: Success strategies in health tourism. Analyzes of the expectations and satisfaction of guests. Erich Schmidt Verlag, Berlin 2010, p. 11.
  3. ↑ Deutscher Wellness Verband eV ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / wellnessverband.de
  4. ↑ a b Website of the German Medical Wellness Association e. V.
  5. ↑ German Working Group Medical Wellness
  6. ^ Article from "Ärztezeitung", February 5, 2009
  7. ^ A b Sandra Dörpinghaus: Medical Wellness - Future market with obstacles. IAT Institute Work and Technology, 6/2009 (PDF; 246 kB)
  8. ^ Profile at the University of Coburg
  9. ^ Sächsische Zeitung from 12./13. February 2011: Vacation with the doctor