Health professional
Provider of health care treatment and advice based on formal training and experience.
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Midwife
A midwife is a health professional who cares for mothers and newborns around childbirth, a specialization known as midwifery.
Nursing
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Nurses may be differentiated from other health care providers by their approach to patient care, training, and scope of practice.
Physician
A physician (American English), medical practitioner (Commonwealth English), medical doctor, or simply doctor, is a health professional who practices medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring health through the study, diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of disease, injury, and other physical and mental impairments.
Respiratory therapist
A respiratory therapist is a specialized healthcare practitioner trained in critical care and cardio-pulmonary medicine in order to work therapeutically with people who have acute critical conditions, cardiac and pulmonary disease.
Health care
Maintenance or improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration, or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people.
Maintenance or 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.
Public health
Public health has been defined as "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals".
Public health has been defined as "the science and art of preventing disease, prolonging life and promoting health through the organized efforts and informed choices of society, organizations, public and private, communities and individuals".
There may not be enough trained healthcare workers, monetary resources, or, in some cases, sufficient knowledge to provide even a basic level of medical care and disease prevention.
Optometry
Specialized health care profession that involves examining the eyes and related structures for defects or abnormalities.
Specialized health care profession that involves examining the eyes and related structures for defects or abnormalities.
Optometrists are health care professionals who typically provide comprehensive primary eye care.
Pharmacist
Pharmacists, also known as chemists (Commonwealth English) or druggists (North American and, archaically, Commonwealth English), are health professionals who control, formulate, preserve and dispense medications and provide advice and counselling on how medicines should be used to achieve maximum benefit, minimal side effects and to avoid drug interactions.
Hospital
Health care institution providing patient treatment with specialized health science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment.
Health care institution providing patient treatment with specialized health science and auxiliary healthcare staff and medical equipment.
A teaching hospital delivers healthcare to patients as well as training to prospective medical professionals such as medical students and student nurses.