Providing health services
- Caring for patients
- Providing health care
- Providing medical care
- Offering adequate medical care
- Providing sufficient medical care
- Providing medical treatment
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
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.
Health treatment is too often used to remedy a lack of effective preventive measures.
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