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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.
Quality of care is the degree to which health services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes and are consistent with evidence-based professional knowledge.
Quality of care is the degree to which health services for individuals and populations increase the likelihood of desired health outcomes. It is based on evidence-based professional knowledge and is critical for achieving universal health coverage.
It posits that population health outcomes and system responsiveness depend on the extent to which the entire population has access to care and the extent to which health services are of good quality (i.e. they are effective, safe and patient-centred).
3 dni temu · empowering individuals, families and communities to take charge of their own health. Primary health care enables health systems to support a person’s health needs – from health promotion to disease prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, palliative care and more.
Besides providing health-care services, including access and financing of both curative and preventive care, the health system can prevent negative social consequences of diseases (WHO). Figueras and McKee propose a framework to understand the contribution of health systems to societal well-being.
Quality healthcare often means striking the right balance when providing healthcare services by avoiding overuse (e.g., unnecessary tests), underuse (e.g., missed blood pressure screening), or misuse (e.g., prescribing of drugs with harmful interactions).1
