Author(s)

Zhendong Wu, Yalun Wei, Chengmeng Zhang, Yang Wang

Corresponding Author

Yang Wang

Abstract

Health is affected by health management resource and capacity. There are two problems in health management: insufficient health management resources and unequal health management capabilities. This article introduces the concept and value of time banking that is regarded as a new social capital exchange and distribution path. This article also explores its application in health management, and puts forward two paths of how to utilize time banking online information system to improve health management resource and capacity. The first path is to provide social capital for health management by utilizing time banking to gather social capital. The second path is to improve health management capacity by using time banking to create an integrated health management system that can achieve social capital exchange and social division of labor.

Keywords

health management, social capital, safe, time banking, information