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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 embraces all the goods and services designed to promote health, including “preventive, curative and palliative interventions, whether directed to individuals or to populations”.[1] The organised provision of such services may constitute a health care system. This can include specific governmental organizations 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. In most developed countries and many developing countries health care is provided to everyone regardless of their ability to pay. The National Health Service, established in 1948 by Clement Atlee's Labour government in the United Kingdom, were the world's first universal health care system provided by government and paid for from general taxation. Alternatively, compulsory government funded health insurance with nominal fees can be provided, as in Italy. Other examples are Medicare in Australia, established in the 1970s by the Labor government, and by the same name Medicare was established in Canada between 1966 and 1984. Universal health care contrasts to the systems like health care in the United States or South Africa, though South Africa is one of the many countries attempting health care reform.[2] The United States is the only wealthy, industrialized nation that does not provide universal health care.[3][4] The health care industry is considered an industry or profession which includes peoples' exercise of skill or judgment or the providing of a service related to the preservation or improvement of the health of individuals or the treatment or care of individuals who are injured, sick, disabled, or infirm. The delivery of modern health care depends on an expanding group of trained professionals coming together as an interdisciplinary team.[5][6] Consuming over 10 percent of gross domestic product of most developed nations, health care can form an enormous part of a country's economy. In 2003, health care costs paid to hospitals, physicians, nursing homes, diagnostic laboratories, pharmacies, medical device manufacturers and other components of the health care system, consumed 16.3 percent[7] of the GDP of the United States, the largest of any country in the world. For the United States, the health share of gross domestic product (GDP) is expected to hold steady in 2006 before resuming its historical upward trend, reaching 19.5 percent of GDP by 2016.[8] In 2001, for the OECD countries the average was 8.4 percent[9] with the United States (13.9%), Switzerland (10.9%), and Germany (10.7%) being the top three.
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The Truth About Guiding Patients to the Best Skincare by Laurel Levine
Let me tell you a quick story...
A medical facility in Los Angeles contains a few brochures about skin care. Yet many patients do not have access to the Internet. Many patients lack the ability to determine whether or not those are the best s...
Greg Winteregg, DDS Answers The Managed Care Riddle by Robert Bell
What am I going to do?
In 1992, after eleven years in my dental practice, I was asking myself this very question. My practice was in a strip mall and the supermarket moved out. The foot traffic left with it. New patients crashed to fewer than...
Patient Satisfaction by Lauren Knight
Dental tourism in the UK has grown rapidly over the last few years. Current estimates suggest that well over a million people have received dental care outside of the UK. A recent survey indicated that most of those patients, over 80%, report sa...
Proper Skin Care For Acne Patient by Patrick Louis
Acne is defined as a diseased condition of the skin that involves the hair and oil glands. It is characterised by pimples, black/white heads, reddishness and cysts. Face acne can spoil your appearance to a great extent and body acne can really rui...
Eczema Treatment: Joint Efforts of Doctor and Patient is Necessary by Addam Devin
Though the exact cause behind eczema is not discovered yet, it would be wrong to say that there is no successful method for eczema treatment. Like any other diseases, eczema also has its cure. The problem is t...
Acne and Effective Home Remedies by Dave AM
Acne is basically an inflammatory skin disease that affects oil glands in the skin. It is a group of rashes that arise from different causes. It is most common in teenagers, and there are also many adults who suffer from it. When suffering from acne,...
NATUROPATHIC PHILOSOPHY, DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF ACNE by Internet David
`Naturopathy’ or `natural medicine’ is a largely pseudoscientific approach said to `assist nature’ that is `support the body’s own innate capacity to achieve optimal health’ and `facilitate the body’s inherent healing mechanisms’.
Naturopathi...
Dental care for patients by Jos Sree
The Dental care provides a diversity of care for the patient. The dentists treat and examine the patients comfortably by providing the materials required for the treatment. Moreover the dentists instruct the patients abo...
Patient characteristics and clinical management of patients with shoulder pain in U.S. primary care settings: Secondary data analysis of the National
Patient characteristics and clinical management of patients with shoulder pain in U.S. primary care settings: Secondary data analysis of the National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey
James L Wofford* 1 , Richard J Mans...
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