health care
Also known as health-care, healthcare, medical care, health profession, delivery of health care
prevention of disease and promotion of wellbeing of humans and animals
AI overview
Health care is the set of services and practices aimed at preventing disease and promoting wellbeing in humans and animals. It matters because it helps keep people and animals healthy, free from illness, and able to live better lives.
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Research
3,068,462 papers- What is value in health care?The New England journal of medicine · 2010Porter MEDOI: 10.1056/NEJMp1011024
- Health Care and the Fate of Social Europe.Journal of health politics, policy and law · 2021Fierlbeck KDOI: 10.1215/03616878-8706579
- The commercialization of health care.Cadernos de saude publica · 2013Travassos C
- Health care: maintenance or repair?ReviewIEEE pulse · 2013Godik EDOI: 10.1109/mpul.2013.2242015
- Health care 2020: reengineering health care delivery to combat chronic disease.ReviewThe American journal of medicine · 2015
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Global concentrations of health care resources, as depicted by the number of physicians per 10,000 individuals, by country. Data is sourced from a WHO indicator and is from 2017-2023.
Health care, or healthcare, is the improvement or maintenance of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration 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. Medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, midwifery, nursing, optometry, audiology, psychology, occupational therapy, physical therapy, athletic training, and other health professions all constitute health care. The term includes work done in providing primary care, secondary care, tertiary care, mental health care and public health.