health system
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system that consists of all organizations, people and actions whose primary intent is to promote, restore or maintain health
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- sociotechnical system
- Has part
- pharmacy
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- Commons category
- Healthcare
- applies to jurisdiction
- region
- studied by
- health sciences
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Encyclopedic overview
A health system, health care system, or healthcare system, is a set of organizations, institutions and resources whose primary goal is to produce actions for the promotion, restoration or maintenance of health.
There is a wide variety of health systems around the world, with as many histories and organizational structures as there are countries. Implicitly, countries must design and develop health systems in accordance with their needs and resources, although common elements in virtually all health systems are primary healthcare and public health measures.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “health system” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.