Healthcare Services: Promoting Wellness and Healing

Healthcare involves the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, and management of illnesses to maintain or restore health through medical services and professionals.

Healthcare FAQ

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What is healthcare & how does it work?

What's healthcare? Healthcare means the services provided to you to maintain and improve your health. This involves preventing, diagnosing and treating mental and physical illnesses, diseases and injuries. Healthcare provided by the NHS is free at the point of delivery to UK residents, apart from certain things.

What is primary health care?

addressing the broader determinants of health through multisectoral policy and action empowering individuals, families and communities to take charge of their own health. Primary health care enables health systems to support a person’s health needs – from health promotion to disease prevention, treatment, rehabilitation, palliative care and more.

What is quality health care?

Quality health care can be defined in many ways but there is growing acknowledgement that quality health services should be: Effective – providing evidence-based healthcare services to those who need them; People-centred – providing care that responds to individual preferences, needs and values.

What does health care mean?

Pictured is its Weill Cornell facility (white complex at the center). Health care, or healthcare, is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. Health care is delivered by health professionals and allied health fields.

What is health information & health information technology?

Together health information and health information technology create health informatics, which combines the intelligent use of information and technology to provide better care for patients.

What is health information?

Information is an ethereal commodity. One definition describes it as the data and knowledge that intelligent systems (human and artificial) use to support their decisions.

Why is my health information held in our systems?

Some of your health information will be held in our systems to improve your care. For example: We provide services that help you manage your own health and care and make it easier to get the care you need. For example: We collect confidential patient information so that it can be used to improve everyone's health and care.

Why is health and care information important?

It’s very important that health and care staff looking after you have the information they need, when they need it, to make good decisions about your care, and keep you in the best possible health. This information is important to us as individuals – better use of health and care information gives us more control of our own health and care.