Health care providers

Health Care Providers

Health Care Providers (pronunciation: /ˈhelθ keər prəˈvaɪdər/) are professionals who provide medical services to individuals. The term is often used to refer to a broad range of professionals, including doctors, nurses, physician assistants, and others.

Etymology

The term "Health Care Provider" is derived from the words "health care", which refers to the maintenance or improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, recovery, or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people, and "provider", which refers to a person or organization that supplies a particular service.

Related Terms

• Primary Care Physician: A primary care physician is a health care provider who provides both the first contact for a person with an undiagnosed health concern as well as continuing care of varied medical conditions, not limited by cause, organ system, or diagnosis.
• Specialist: A specialist is a health care provider who focuses on a specific area of medicine or a group of patients to diagnose, manage, prevent or treat certain types of symptoms and conditions.
• Allied Health Professionals: Allied health professionals are health care providers distinct from nursing, medicine, and pharmacy. They work in health care teams to make the health care system function by providing a range of diagnostic, technical, therapeutic, and direct patient care and support services.

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