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Health care, Treatment, Medical, National
Health Service, The World Health Organization.
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”. 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.
In most developed countries
and many developing countries health care is provided to everyone
regardless of their ability to pay. The National Health Service
in the United Kingdom was the world's first universal health
care system provided by government. It was established in
1948 by Clement Atlee's Labour government. Alternatively,
compulsory government funded health insurance with nominal
fees can be provided, as with Italy, which, according to the
World Health Organisation, has the second-best health system
in the world. 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.
The United States is the only industrialized nation that does
not guarantee access to health care as a right of citizenship.
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care: 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
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| The World Health Organization
(WHO) is a specialised United Nations agency which
acts as a coordinator and researcher for public health around
the world. Established on 7 April 1948, and headquartered in
Geneva, Switzerland, the agency inherited the mandate and resources
of its predecessor, the Health Organization, which had been
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