Healthcare industry
Healthcare industry
The Healthcare industry (pronounced: /ˈhelθkeər ˈɪndəstri/) is an aggregation and integration of sectors within the economic system that provides goods and services to treat patients with curative, preventive, rehabilitative, and palliative care. It includes the generation and commercialization of goods and services lending themselves to maintaining and re-establishing health.
Etymology
The term "healthcare" has been derived from the words "health" and "care". "Health" comes from the Old English word "hǣlth", which has its roots in Old Norse "heill", meaning "whole" or "being well". "Care" comes from the Old English word "caru" or "care", which means "grief, anxiety, occupation", hence, healthcare essentially means taking care of one's well-being.
Related Terms
- Healthcare provider: A provider of services for the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease and disability.
- Healthcare system: The organization of people, institutions, and resources to deliver healthcare services to meet the health needs of target populations.
- Healthcare policy: The plans, decisions, and actions undertaken to achieve specific healthcare goals within a society.
- Healthcare reform: The general rubric used for discussing major health policy creation or changes.
- Healthcare technology: The application of organized knowledge and skills in the form of devices, medicines, vaccines, procedures, and systems developed to solve a health problem and improve quality of life.
See Also
External links
- Medical encyclopedia article on Healthcare industry
- Wikipedia's article - Healthcare industry
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