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2. Health care - Wikipedia

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   Health care, or healthcare, is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. Health care is delivered by health professionals and allied health fields. Medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, midwifery, nursing, optometry ...

3. The Differences Between Hospitals and Clinics - WebMD

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   Cons of hospitals. When you visit a doctor’s office or clinic, you often pay a copay based on your insurance plan. At a hospital, you may pay for the time you stay in a room in addition to your ...

4. Health Level 7 - Wikipedia

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   Health Level Seven, abbreviated to HL7, is a range of global standards for the transfer of clinical and administrative health data between applications with the aim to improve patient outcomes and health system performance. The HL7 standards focus on the application layer, which is "layer 7" in the Open Systems Interconnection model.

5. What Is Primary Care? Healthcare Services, Procedures, Doctors

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   Primary care providers are comprised of several different types of healthcare professionals.. Here are some of the options you may have in your area: Family physicians.Family doctors are trained ...

6. What Are Health Equality and Equity, and Why Do They Matter?

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   The American Public Health Association estimates that more than 30% of the medical costs for Black, Hispanic, and Asian Americans are related to health inequities, such as unequal access to care ...

7. Preventive Health: What Is It and Why Is It Important?

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   Preventive care for adults involves screening for chronic conditions like diabetes and heart disease, as well as immunizations against serious illnesses like the flu and COVID-19. It also involves ...

8. Public health - Wikipedia

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   International health is a field of health care, usually with a public health emphasis, dealing with health across regional or national boundaries. [citation needed] Public health is not the same as public healthcare (publicly funded health care). The term preventive medicine is related to public health.

9. Health insurance in the United States - Wikipedia

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   In the United States, health insurance helps pay for medical expenses through privately purchased insurance, social insurance, or a social welfare program funded by the government. [1] [2] Synonyms for this usage include "health coverage", "health care coverage", and "health benefits". In a more technical sense, the term "health insurance" is ...