https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care
Health care or healthcare is the maintenance or improvement of health via the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in human beings. Healthcare is delivered by health professionals (providers or practitioners) in allied health professions, chiropractic, physicians, physician associates, Dentistry, midwifery, nursing, medicine, optometry, Pharmacy, psychology, and other health professions. It includes the work done in providing primary care, secondary care, and tertiary care, as well as in public health.
Access to health care may vary across countries, groups, and individuals, largely influenced by social and economic conditions as well as the health policies in place. Countries and jurisdictions have different policies and plans in relation to the personal and population-based health care goals within their societies. Healthcare systems are organisations established to meet the health needs of target populations. Their exact configuration varies between national and subnational entities. In some countries and jurisdictions, health care planning is distributed among market participants, whereas in others, planning occurs more centrally among governments or other coordinating bodies. In all cases, according to the World Health Organization (WHO), a well-functioning healthcare system requires a robust financing mechanism; a well-trained and adequately paid workforce; reliable information on which to base decisions and policies; and well maintained Health Facilities and logistics to deliver quality medicines and technologies.[1]
Healthcare can contribute to a significant part of a country's economy. In 2011, the healthcare industry consumed an average of 9.3 percent of the GDP or US$ 3,322 (PPP-adjusted) per capita across the 34 members of OECD countries. The US (17.7%, or US$ PPP 8,508), the Netherlands (11.9%, 5,099), France (11.6%, 4,118), Germany (11.3%, 4,495), Canada (11.2%, 5669), and Switzerland (11%, 5,634) were the top spenders, however life expectancy in total population at birth was highest in Switzerland (82.8 years), Japan and Italy (82.7), Spain and Iceland (82.4), France (82.2) and Australia (82.0), while OECD's average exceeds 80 years for the first time ever in 2011: 80.1 years, a gain of 10 years since 1970. The US (78.7 years) ranges only on place 26 among the 34 OECD member countries, but has the highest costs by far. All OECD countries have achieved universal (or almost universal) health coverage, except the US and Mexico.[2][3] (see also international comparisons.)
Health care is conventionally regarded as an important determinant in promoting the general physical and mental health and well-being of people around the world. An example of this was the worldwide eradication of smallpox in 1980, declared by the WHO as the first disease in human history to be completely eliminated by deliberate health care interventions.[4]
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Healthcare Problems
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► Healthcare by city (10 C)
`B
► Health care brands (9 C, 5 P)
► Businesspeople in the healthcare industry (1 C, 9 P)
`C
► Catholic health care (6 C, 29 P)
``D
`E
► Health education (20 C, 51 P)
► Eye care (3 C, 1 P)
`F
► Health fraud (1 C, 67 P)
`H
► Healthcare quality (8 C, 115 P)
► Healthcare robotics (2 C, 3 P)
``I
► Health care industry trade groups (2 C, 11 P)
``L
► Logos associated with health care (2 C, 27 F)
``M
► Medical monitoring (1 C, 35 P)
► Medical robotics (2 C, 14 P)
► Medical robots (5 C, 2 P)
► Medical tourism (22 P)
► Medical works (18 C, 5 P)
► Medicine (30 C, 67 P)
► Midwifery (4 C, 192 P)
``N
► Nursing (19 C, 73 P)
``O
► Medical and health organizations (45 C, 3 P)
``P
► Health policy (13 C, 33 P)
► Primary care (4 C, 31 P)
► Publicly funded health care (3 C, 10 P)
``R
► Healthcare reform (14 P)
``S
► Healthcare software (10 C, 48 P)
`T
`U
► Unnecessary health care (24 P)
`W
► Works about health care (5 C)
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` Acronyms in healthcare
Alma Ata Declaration
Armada Group
`C
` Cardiovascular & pulmonary physiotherapy
Center for positive aging in lower merion
Chronic care
Chronic care management
Clinical audit
Clinical engineering
Clinical Systems and Networks
Collaborative Care
Convalescence
`D
` Decision aids
Disease management (health)
Distributional cost-effectiveness analysis
Domestic medicine
`E
` Elderly care
Euro health consumer index
`F
` Free-market healthcare
`G
` Global Health Initiatives
`H
` Health administration
Health advocacy
Indus Health Plus
Healthcare industry
Health fair
Health human resources
Health humanities
Health professional
Health professional requisites
Health system
Healthcare Engineering
Healthcare Information For All
Healthy development measurement tool
Holistic health
Home care
`I
` Information therapy
Institute of Medical Illustrators
Integrated Care
Integrated delivery system
Integrative medicine
Interactive patient care
International healthcare accreditation
Isolation (health care)
`L
` LaingBuisson
Lift chair
Health literacy
Long Term Care Benefit Plan
Long-term care
M
` Management services organization
MDsave
MEDHOST
Medical care ratio
Medical escort
Medication Administration Record
Midwifery
`N
` Negative room pressure
Nosokinetics
`O
` Open Source Drug Discovery
Option grid
Options counseling
`P
` Patient Activation Measure
Patient navigators
Patient safety organization
Patient-centered outcomes
Patient-initiated violence
Pediatric assessment triangle
Person-centered care
Pharmaceutical care
Philosophy of healthcare
Physician engagement
Point of care
Prescriptive analytics
Progress note
`Q
` Quality of life (healthcare)
`R
` Relaxology
Revenue Cycle Management
`S
` User:Sanandk/sandbox
Second opinion
Self-care
Sick leave
Social franchising
Socialized medicine
Systems medicine
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