‘Health Workers’

Health System & Public Health

Thursday, March 4th, 2010


The practice of medicine is exercised within the economic framework, legal and official medical system that is part of national health systems (state health policies). The characteristics under which manages the health system in general and in particular the medical body, exert a significant effect on how the health service and health care can be utilized by the general population.

One of the most important variable for operation of the system corresponds to the financial area and a state budget that invests in health. Another variable involves human resources that articulate the directives of the health system. The other side of the coin in terms of medical care is given by the private health service. The fees and health service costs are borne by the contractor, being thus generally restricted to service classes economically solvent.

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Health Workers

Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010

Medicine is not only a body of theoretical and practical knowledge, but is a discipline which is ideally based on a tripod:

  • The physician, as an active agent in the healthcare process
  • The patient, as a passive agent, so it is “patient”
  • The disease entity, the disease that is the nexus of the vehicle and doctor-patient relationship.

The practice of medicine, embodied by the physician, combines both science and art of applying knowledge and technique to perform a health service. This conjunction bidimensional involved in medical practice revolves around the doctor-patient relationship, which is the core need for medical action to intervene in the health need of the patient. In relation to the patient, in the context of health, establishing links with other similarly also health workers (nurses, pharmacists, physiatrists, etc.) Involved in the process. medicine is also important for the life of living beings (humans, animals, plants).

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