health care

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. According to the World Health Organisation, health care embraces all the goods and services designed to promote health, including “preventive, curative and palliative interventions, whether directed to individuals or to populations”. The organised provision of such services may constitute a health care system. This can include a specific governmental organisation such as, in the UK, the National Health Service or a cooperation across the National Health Service and Social Services as in Shared Care. Before the term "health care" became popular, English-speakers referred to medicine or to the health sector and spoke of the treatment and prevention of illness and disease.
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Systems whose goal is to maintain or improve human health.

Systems whose goal is to maintain or improve human health.

POWER OF ATTY, HEALTH CARE - A power of attorney form that continues (by its terms) to be effective even though the grantor has become mentally incompetent after signing the document.

Noun
1. social insurance for the ill and injured
(hypernym) social insurance
(hyponym) Medicare
2. the preservation of mental and physical health by preventing or treating illness through services offered by the health profession
(synonym) healthcare
(hypernym) care, attention, aid, tending