Health care, health-care, or
healthcare is 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.
Health care is delivered by
health professionals in allied
health fields. Access to
health care may vary across countries, communities, and individuals, influenced by social and economic conditions as well as health policies. Providing
health care services means "the timely use of personal
health services to achieve the best possible
health outcomes". Factors to consider in terms of
healthcare access include financial limitations (such as insurance coverage), geographic barriers (such as additional transportation costs, possibility to take paid time off of work to use such services), and personal limitations (lack of ability to communicate with
healthcare providers,
poor health literacy, low income). Limitations to
health care services affects negatively the use of medical services, the efficacy of treatments, and overall outcome (well-being, mortality rates). Health care systems are organizations established to meet the
health needs of targeted populations. According to the World
Health Organization (WHO), a well-functioning
health care system requires a financing mechanism, a well-trained and adequately paid workforce, reliable information on which to base decisions and policies, and well maintained health facilities to deliver quality medicines and technologies.
High Impact List of Articles
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Respect Biphasic T waves
Fatima Khan, Irfan Ahsan, Asoka Balaratna Image: International Journal of Collaborative Research on Internal Medicine & Public Health
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Study of Women's Health Indices: A Review Study in Iran
Seyed Masood Mousavi, Mahdieh Mojibian,Ehsan Zarepur, Niloofar Mohammadi Kamal Abadi, Rezvan Sadr Mohammadi, Reza Bidaki Research Article: International Journal of Collaborative Research on Internal Medicine & Public Health
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Prevalence and risk factors of Stress, Anxiety and
Depression among Preclinical Medical students in
Universiti Putra Malaysia in 2014
Maher D. Fuad Fuad, Munn Sann Lye , Normala Ibrahim, Siti Irma Fadhillah binti Ismail, Phang Cheng Kar
: International Journal of Collaborative Research on Internal Medicine & Public Health
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Obstetric outcomes of teenagers and older mothers: experience from Saudi Arabia
Abdel-Hady El-Gilany (MD) , Sabry Hammad (MD) : International Journal of Collaborative Research on Internal Medicine & Public Health
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Molecular epidemiology of Mu
ltidrug resistant Extended-Spectrum
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-Lactamase Producing Klebsie
lla pneumoniae outbreak in a
neonatal intensive care unit
Parveen R Mohamudha, Acharya N Srinivas, Dhodapkar Rahul, B N Harish, S C Parija : International Journal of Collaborative Research on Internal Medicine & Public Health
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