Community Pharmacy - Health Care

Health Care

Health care is an expression of concern for fellow human beings. It is defined as the multitude of services rendered to individuals, families or communities by the agents of a health services or professions for the purpose of promoting, maintaining, monitoring or restoring health.

All services have one thing in common, people are being served i.e., diagnosed health cured, educated and rehabilitated by health personnel.

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Famous quotes containing the words health care, health and/or care:

    “It is unconscionable that we ration health care by the ability to pay.... your heart breaks. Health care should be a given.”
    —Kathryn Anastos (b. 1950)

    “At last I feel the equal of my parents. Knowing you are going to have a child is like extending yourself in the world, setting up a tent and saying “Here I am, I am important.” Now that I’m going to have a child it’s like the balance is even. My hand is as rich as theirs, maybe for the first time. I am no longer just a child.”
    —Anonymous Father. Ourselves and Our Children, by Boston Women’s Health Book Collective, ch. 5 (1978)

    “... no human being is master of his fate, and ... we are all motivated far more than we care to admit by characteristics inherited from our ancestors which individual experiences of childhood can modify, repress, or enhance, but cannot erase.”
    —Agnes E. Meyer (1887–1970)