Health care, health-care, or healthcare is the maintenance or improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, recovery, or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. Access to health care may vary across countries, communities, and individuals. A well-functioning health care system requires a financing mechanism, a well-trained and adequately paid workforce, reliable information on which to base decisions and policies.
About Health care in brief
Health care, health-care, or healthcare is the maintenance or improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, recovery, or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. Health care is delivered by health professionals and allied health fields. Access to health care may vary across countries, communities, and individuals, influenced by social and economic conditions as well as health policies. A well-functioning health care system requires a financing mechanism, a well-trained and adequately paid workforce, reliable information on which to base decisions and policies, and well maintained health facilities to deliver quality medicines and technologies. The delivery of modern health care depends on groups of trained professionals and paraprofessionals coming together as interdisciplinary teams. The International Classification of Primary Care is a standardized tool for understanding and analyzing information in primary care based on the reason for the patient visit. Common primary care may include chronic illnesses such as COPD, diabetes, asthma, back pain or thyroid dysfunction. Primary care includes many basic health care services, such as family planning services and vaccinations. In the United States, primary care is a subset of the more familiar concierge medicine which is a more familiar form of medicine in the gegege system. The most common reasons for accessing a physician were the most common reason for a physician to see a patient was to see him or her for routine check-ups and preventive care, and every time they require an initial consultation about a new health problem. The 2013 National Health Survey found that osteoarthritis, skin disorders, disorders of lipid metabolism and upper respiratory tract disease were the common reasons to visit a physician for a check-up or treatment.
The World Health Organization declared smallpox in 1980 as the first disease in human history to be eliminated by deliberate health care interventions. An efficient health care systems can contribute to a significant part of a country’s economy, development, and industrialization. It is conventionally regarded as an important determinant in promoting the general physical and mentally health and well-being of people around the world. Health care can be defined as either public or private. It can be provided in different settings such as Urgent care centers that provide same-day appointments or services on a walk-in basis. It may also include the provision of secondary and tertiary levels of care. The definition of primary care varies depending on the different cultural, political, organizational and disciplinary perspectives, but there appears to be some consensus that primary care constitutes the first element of a continuing health care process. Such a professional would usually be a general practitioner or family physician. Another professional would be a licensed independent practitioner such as a physiotherapist, or a physician assistant or nurse practitioner. Depending on the nature of the health condition, patients may be referred for secondary or tertiary care. Patients usually prefer to consult the same practitioner for routineCheck-ups, preventive care and health education, and all types of acute and chronic physical, mental and social health issues.
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