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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.
According to the World Health Organization, 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 "healthcare"
became popular, English-speakers referred to medicine or to
the health sector and spoke of the treatment and prevention
of illness and disease.
The National Health Service (NHS) is the "public face"
of the three publicly funded health care systems of Great
Britain (Northern Ireland does not use the title).
It currently employs 1.33 million people, making it the world's
fourth largest employer after the Chinese Army, Indian Railways
and Wal-mart.
The NHS provides the majority of healthcare in the UK, from
general practitioners to hospitals, long-term healthcare,
dentistry and opthalmology.
It was founded in 1948 and has become an integral part of
British society, culture and everyday life: the NHS was once
described by Nigel Lawson, former Chancellor of the Exchequer,
as "the national religion".
Private health care has continued parallel to the NHS, paid
for largely by private insurance, but it is used only by a
small percentage of the population, and generally as a top-up
to NHS services.
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NHS services are largely "free at the point of delivery",
paid for by taxes; the NHS's budget for 2006–07 is
£96 billion. Employing over 1.3 million people, the
NHS is the largest employer in Europe and one of the largest
employers in the world, (believed to be third or fifth,
according to different commentators).
The government department responsible for the NHS is the
Department of Health, headed by the Secretary of State for
Health, (presently Patricia Hewitt), who sits in the British
Cabinet. As of January 2007, the Ministers of State under
Ms. Hewitt are:
Andy Burnham (Delivery & NHS Reform)
Rosie Winterton (Health Services)
Caroline Flint (Public Health)
Lord Hunt (Quality)
The department also has one Parliamentary Under Secretary
of State who is Ivan Lewis (Care Services).
Nose Surgery India
In almost all cases (except few), the patient can
go home the same day or requires only one day stay in the
hospital. In the next few paragraphs, I shall give a brief
synopsis about the various cosmetic surgery procedures that
are performed, including Hair transplant, liposuction, facelift,
breast surgery including breast enlargement, breast reduction,
breast lift, enlarged male breast or gynaecomastia correction,
nose surgery or rhinoplasty, baggy eyelids, etc. Nose
Surgery India is a Cosmetic Surgical facility
of repute providing very economical facilities at par with
International Standards for Aesthetic Surgery.
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Online
Health Resources :
Helps
children facing Congenital
Heart Problems with Apollo Children’s
Heart Hospital from www.sach.co.in
Smiile
Please Dental Clinic - Family dentist in Mumbai, India offering
Modern Dental Treatments including Cosmetic Dental Treatments,
Smile Designing, Orthodontic Treatment and dental implants.
Visit - Dental
Care in Mumbai
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