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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For the state of being, see
Patience. For other uses, see
Patient (disambiguation).A patient is any person who receives medical attention, care, or treatment. The person is most often
ill or
injured and in need of treatment by a
physician or other medical professional. Health consumer, health care consumer or client are other names for patient, usually used by governmental agencies, insurance companies, and/or patient groups (who may object to some implications of the word 'patient').
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