What Are Health Services?

Health services consist of
medical professionals,
organizations, and ancillary
Health
Services
health care workers who provide
medical care to those in need.
Health services serve patients,
families, communities, and
populations. They cover
emergency, preventative,
rehabilitative, long-term,
hospital, diagnostic, primary,
palliative, and home care. These
services are centered around
making health care accessible,
high quality, and patient-
centered. Many different types
of care and providers are
necessary in order to offer
successful health services.

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Example of
Health Services:
Health services cover many
different types of medical issues.
Many people think of primary
care, outpatient care,
and emergency care when they
need an illness managed or are
generally not feeling well.
PRIMARY CARE:
Primary care is the day-to-
day healthcare given by a health care
provider. Typically this provider acts as the
first contact and principal point of continuing
care for patients within a healthcare system,
and coordinates other specialist care that
the patient may need.
EMERGENY CARE:
e, is the medical specialty concerned with
caring for undifferentiated, unscheduled
patients with illnesses or injuries requiring
immediate medical attention. In their role as
first-line providers,
emergency physicians are responsible for
initiating resuscitation and stabilization,
starting investigations and interventions to
diagnose and treat illnesses in the acute
phase, coordinating care with specialists, and