HEALTH CARE
Health Care
Human body is the residence of multiple disease and ailment. It is therefore necessary that a man takes care of his health adequately. Health care has been a subject pursued by the human society since the ancient times. Health care ordinarily refers to prevention, treatment, and management of diseases and maintenance of physical balance through various means available for the same. There are many aspects of health care and health care services. It includes health care for child, for grown up men, health care for senior citizens, for nursing and pregnant woman and virtually every one.
The scenario
An organized management of all the subjects related to maintenance of health is called Health care services. Ordinarily the things that are related to health care are illness, disease, and medicine. In the ancient times people were often subjected to treatment on the basis of black magic and koaks reigned supreme on the scene. However, scientists were on constant pursuit of development of the health care system and as a result many new medicines and health care methods were invented from time to time. Today, the health care services are more or less controlled by legislation and though there are a number of private organization on the field, they are duty bound to obey the directives of such legal processes.
Inventions
Some the notable inventions in the field of health care and medicine have been the invention of quinine, snake venom, anti-titenus, polio and small pox vaccines and radium. Presently there is constant research on renal diseases like cancer and AIDS. It is through such inventions and research that human being have been able to take care of dreaded diseases like Malaria, Typhoid, Tuberculosis, Small pox and many others. Every invention has added a milestone to the history of medical science and helped a lot more in maintenance of a sound health care system. Such inventions are not only in terms of medicines but there have been inventions in medical equipments, as well as in the field of physiotherapy and exercises that also help the growth of good health in the community. Physical exercises and physiotherapy plays an important part in health care system that helps us to reinvigorate the limbs that have been affected due to disease or some accident or any such occurrences and to help back the limb to normal functioning position.
The Industry
The Health care industry is today one of the largest and fastest-growing industries in the world. The enormity can be counted from the fact that health care services have been consuming nearly one tenth of GNP in developed countries. Every country has got its own health care system and network. The Health care services include hospitals, doctors, nursing homes, pharmacies, laboratories, medical units, and para-medical services. While the lion's share is till date occupied by Public institutes, private institutes are growing at rapid rates and the day is not far off when they will surpass the public institutes. In fact most people already prefer the private institutes on the basis of expertise and services offered though they happen to be a much costlier proposition compared to the public utilities available. The health care industry also includes services provided by doctors and all allied health services provided by any other provider.
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