Health care or healthcare is the prevention, treatment, and management of illness and the preservation of mental and physical well-being through the services offered by the medical, nursing, and allied health professions.
- Health care" means preventative, diagnostic, therapeutic, rehabilitative, maintenance or palliative care, services, procedures or counseling, including appropriate assistance with disease or symptom management and maintenance, that affects an individual's physical, mental or behavioral condition, including individual cells or their components or genetic information, or affects the structure or function of the human body or any part of the human body. ...
HEALTH CARE PROVIDER
A health care provider is anyone who provides health care to another person or persons as a profession.
- means any person, corporation, facility or institution licensed or otherwise authorized by the Commonwealth to provide health care services, including, but not limited to, any physician, coordinated care organization, hospital, health care facility, dentist, nurse, optometrist, podiatrist, physical therapist, psychologist, chiropractor or pharmacist and an officer, employee or agent of such person acting in the course and scope of employment or agency related to health care services.
Health care providers include
1.physicians,
2.nurses,
3.physician assistants,
4.nurse practitioners
5.and other specific provider of health
TYPES OF HEALTH CARE SERVICES:
1.HEALTH PROMOTION AND ILLNESS PREVENTION
Health Promotion - addresses areas such as adequate and proper nutrition, weight control and exercise, and stress reduction. It emphasizes the important role clients play in maintaining their own health and encourage them to maintain the highest level of wellness they can achieve.
Illness prevention- maybe directed at the client or the community and involved in such practices as providing immunization, identifying risk factors for illness, and helping people tae measures to prevent these illness from occurring. It also includes environmental programs that can reduce the incidence of disability and illness.
2.DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT
-Hospital and physicians鈥?officer have been the major agencies offering these complex services.
DIAGNOSIS- the identifying of an illness or disorder in a patient through an interview, physical examination, and medical tests and other procedures
TREATMENT- the application of medical care to cure disease, heal injuries, or ease symptoms
3.REHABILITATION, HEALTH RESTORATION, AND PALLIATIVE CARE
REHABILITATION- is a process of restoring ill or injured people to optimum and functional level of wellness
REHABILITATIVE CARE- emphasizes the importance of assisting clients to function adequately in physical, mental, social, economic, and vocational areas of their life.
PALLIATIVE CARE-providing comfort and treatment for symptoms.
RESTORATION-the return of something that was removed, or the restoring of something to a former condition.
TYPES OF HEALTH AGENCIES
1.Hospital- building for medical care: an institution where people receive medical, surgical, or psychiatric treatment and nursing care
2.Public health- community health: the general health of a community and the practice and study of ways to preserve and improve this. It includes health education, sanitation, control of diseases, and regulation of pollution.
3.Ambulatory Care centers-a medical treatment centre where simple operations are performed on outpatients
-also called 鈥渃linic鈥?br>
- have diagnostic and treatment facilities providing medical, nursing, laboratory and radiological services. They permitted the client to live at home while obtaining necessary health care, and they freely costly hospital bed for seriously ill clients.
4.Occupational health clinics
-is gaining importance as a setting for employee health care.
--it includes screening for such health problems like hypertension and obesity, caring for employee following injury and counseling. I got as far as Tagalog, then i was lost. Unsure if there is a question in there somewhere |
