Human Healthcare Delivery Task

A Human Healthcare Delivery Task is a health delivery task that cares for human health.

• AKA: Medical Assistance.
• Context:
  • It can be performed by a Health Care Provider (such as a healthcare worker within a healthcare system).
  • It can range from being a Preventive Healthcare Task to being a Reactive Healthcare Task (such as emergency health care).
  • It can range from being Curative Healthcare to being Rehabilitative Healthcare.
  • It can range from being a Primary Healthcare to being a Secondary Healthcare to being a Tertiary Healthcare.
  • It can range from being a Population-based Healthcare Task to being a Personalized Healthcare Task.
  • It can range from being a Digital Healthcare Delivery Task to being a Traditional Healthcare Delivery Task.
  • It can involve an Ill-Health Diagnosis, an Ill-Health Treatment, and/or an Ill-Health Prevention.
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• Example(s):
  • a Healthcare Evaluation Task.
  • a First Aid Task, such as CPR.
  • a Digital Healthcare Delivery (digital therapeutics).
  • a Preventative Healthcare, such as vaccination and blood-pressure reduction.
  • a Palliative Care Task, such as ...
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • a Clinical Research Task.
  • a Veterinary Task.
• See: Health Care Industry, Life Expectancy Measure, Health Care Management, Healthcare Facility, Therapy, Health Professional, Disease, Diagnosis, Therapy, Cure, Illness.

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References

2020

• (Wikipedia, 2020) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care Retrieved:2020-7-2.
  • 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. Physicians and physician associates are a part of these health professionals. Dentistry, pharmacy, midwifery, nursing, medicine, optometry, audiology, psychology, occupational therapy, physical therapy, athletic training and other health professions are all part of health care. It includes work done in providing primary care, secondary care, and tertiary care, as well as in public health.

    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. An efficient health care system can contribute to a significant part of a country's economy, development, and industrialization. Health care is conventionally regarded as an important determinant in promoting the general physical and mental health and well-being of people around the world. An example of this was the worldwide eradication of smallpox in 1980, declared by the WHO as the first disease in human history to be completely eliminated by deliberate health care interventions.

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