strategy
Providing health services
Synonyms:
Caring for patientsProviding health care
Providing medical care
Offering adequate medical care
Providing sufficient medical care
Providing medical treatment
Improving health care
Improving health services
Description:
Restoring sick people to good health by some medical (physical, chemical, emotional/psychic) means. Implementation:
Health services require that a community develop a fundamental consensus on what constitutes being appropriately healthy. Consensus is also required about appropriate measures for maintaining health, especially as regards those measures which intrude upon strong social values. Counter Claim:
1. Health services isolated from the larger social context extend life expectancy and save lives of those who would previously have died, contributing to the overcrowding of the planet. Furthermore, health programmes focus community resources on the maintenance of physical well-being, leaving out the quality and utility of lives.2. Health treatment is too often used to remedy a lack of effective preventive measures.
Narrower:
Insuring healthCaring for the agedCaring for the frailHumanizing health careCorrecting eye disordersProviding services that promote healthy livesAssisting women in labourCaring for the handicappedAssuring family health careProviding medical personnelStandardizing hospital careProviding animal health careExpanding basic medical careProviding home doctor serviceCaring for people with stomasStrengthening health servicesProviding private medical careDeveloping medical informaticsAiding those with incontinenceProviding immediate health careTeaching basic health practicesProviding intensive medical careInstalling local health servicesProviding public health servicesMeeting specialized medical needsProviding frequent medical visitsDeveloping mental health servicesSupplying family planning servicesProviding professional medical careProviding public health informationArranging district medical servicesArranging district medical servicesArranging inexpensive doctor's careProviding sufficient medical recordsProviding school-based health servicesProviding fair pharmaceutical practicesProviding high technology medical curesProviding women's health centres managed by womenStrengthening comprehensive health care for womenProviding medical care to persons with disabilitiesProviding medical relief for large-scale emergenciesImproving care of patients Constrained by:
Overcoming health care dependency Facilitates:
Healing illnessTreating diseasesRelieving human sufferingImproving health careEnsuring a healthy environment Facilitated by:
Promoting health careDeveloping health systemsCoordinating health development aidProviding sufficient medical ethicsEncouraging competent medical servicesIncreasing efficiency of use of available health care Problems:
Commercialization of medical practiceCompulsory health care
Dehumanization of health care
Inadequate emergency medical services
Inadequate health services
Inadequate working conditions in health and medical services
Non-use of available health facilities
Underutilized medical services
Unethical pharmaceutical practices
Values:
CareHealthUncaringMaltreatment Organizations:
European Oncology Nursing Society European Federation of Nurses Associations European Health Committee International Clinical Epidemiology Network The Network: Towards Unity for Health International Association of Healthcare Practitioners Subjects:
Social Activity → ServicesHealth Care → Health
Health Care → Treatment
Health Care → Hospitals
Health Care → Care
Development → Reform
Type Classification:
C: Cross-sectoral strategies Related UN Sustainable Development Goals:
