Healthcare and Medicine

Healthcare and Medicine

1. Healthcare refers to the organized provision of medical care to people and communities. It is also 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. 1) … all goods, services, and payment mechanisms for achieving and maintaining one's health. It includes hospitals, labs, radiology centers, physical therapy offices, pharmaceutical companies, pharmacies, health insurance companies, and much more, 2) … and practice concerned with caring for a patient, maintaining health and managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment or palliation of their injury or disease.

2. Access to health care may vary across countries, communities, and individuals, influenced by social and economic conditions as well as health policies. Providing health care services means "the timely use 3) …". Factors to consider in terms of healthcare access include financial limitations (such as insurance coverage), geographic barriers (such as additional transportation costs. the possibility to take paid time off of work to use such services), and personal limitations (lack of ability to communicate with healthcare providers, poor health literacy, low income). Limitations to health care services affects negatively the use of medical services, the efficacy of treatments, and overall outcome (well-being, mortality rates).

3. A health system, also sometimes referred to as healthcare system is the organization of people, institutions, and resources that deliver health care services to populations in need, However, the definitions of the various types of healthcare vary depending 4) … There appears to be some consensus that primary care constitutes the first element of a continuing health care process and may also include the provision of secondary and tertiary levels of care. Primary care refers to the work of health professionals who act as a first point of consultation for all patients within the health care system. Such a professional would usually be a primary care physician, 5) …

4. Secondary care includes acute care: necessary treatment for a short period of time for a brief but serious illness, injury, or other health condition. This care is often found in a hospital emergency department. Secondary care also includes skilled attendance 6) … Tertiary care is specialized consultative health care, usually for inpatients and on referral from a primary or secondary health professional, in a facility that has personnel and facilities for advanced medical investigation and treatment, such as a tertiary referral hospital. 7) … cancer management, neurosurgery, cardiac surgery, plastic surgery, treatment for severe burns, advanced neonatology services, palliative, and other complex medical and surgical interventions.