Concept information
Preferred term
health services
Definition
- The provision of social and medical support to those in need. In the past a distinction was made between primary health care, provided on a one to one basis by a medical practitioner to a patient; secondary health care, the provision of services by hospitals and clinics; and tertiary healthcare, the provision of specialist services and specialized care. [Source: The Sage Dictionary of Health and Society; Health Services]
Narrower concepts
- abortion services
- acute services
- adolescent health services
- ambulatory care services
- audiology services
- blood transfusion services
- cancer services
- cardiology services
- cardiorespiratory services
- centralized health services
- chest health services
- child care
- child health services
- clinics
- community health services
- contract health services
- day and night care
- decentralized health services
- dental health services
- dental services
- deputising services
- diabetes services
- diagnosis and treatment centers
- diagnostic services
- dietary services
- dietetic services
- drug rehabilitation
- ear nose and throat health services
- emergency health services
- emergency medical services
- emergency services
- family health services
- free schemes for patients
- gastroenterology health services
- genetic services
- health care systems
- health professions
- health programs
- health service administration
- health service indicators
- health service organization
- health service provision
- health service reform
- health services for elderly people
- health services for ethnic minorities
- health services for immigrants
- health services for the aged
- health services for transgendered persons
- health services misuse
- hospital and community health services
- hospitals
- incontinence services
- independent sector treatment centres
- indigenous health services
- infertility services
- insurance based health schemes
- local health services
- managed care services
- medical centers
- medical errors
- medical institution
- mens health services
- mental health services
- midwifery services
- mobile health services
- neurological health services
- neurosurgical health services
- non clinical procedures
- nurse led services
- nursing care
- nursing services
- occupational health services
- occupational therapy services
- ophthalmology services
- orthodontic health services
- orthopedic services
- out of hours health services
- out patient services
- pathology services
- patient care
- personal health services
- pharmaceutical services
- physiotherapy services
- podiatry services
- preventive health services
- preventive medicine health services
- profit making health services
- psychiatric institution
- psychology services
- radiology services
- regional health services
- rehabilitation services
- renal services
- reproductive health services
- respiratory health services
- rheumatism health services
- rural health services
- specialist health services
- student health services
- substance abuse treatment services
- suburban health services
- surgical services
- tissue and organ procurement
- transition to adult care
- transplantation services
- tuberculosis health services
- urban health services
- women's health services
- young peoples health services
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URI
https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/health_services
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