Providing health services

Restoring sick people to good health by some medical (physical, chemical, emotional/psychic) means.

Health services require that a community develop a fundamental consensus on what constitutes being appropriately healthy. Consensus is also required about appropriate measures for maintaining health, especially as regards those measures which intrude upon strong social values.

1. Health services isolated from the larger social context extend life expectancy and save lives of those who would previously have died, contributing to the overcrowding of the planet. Furthermore, health programmes focus community resources on the maintenance of physical well-being, leaving out the quality and utility of lives.

2. Health treatment is too often used to remedy a lack of effective preventive measures.

1. Upgrading
2. Providing social security services

1. Teaching basic health practices
2. Supplying family planning services
3. Strengthening health services
4. Strengthening comprehensive health care for women
5. Standardizing hospital care
6. Providing women's health centres managed by women
7. Providing sufficient medical records
8. Providing services that promote healthy lives
9. Providing school-based health services
10. Providing professional medical care
11. Providing private medical care
12. Providing medical relief for large-scale emergencies
13. Providing medical personnel
14. Providing medical care to persons with disabilities
15. Providing intensive medical care
16. Providing immediate health care
17. Providing home doctor service
18. Providing high technology medical cures
19. Providing frequent medical visits
20. Providing fair pharmaceutical practices
21. Providing animal health care
22. Meeting specialized medical needs
23. Insuring health
24. Installing local health services
25. Improving care of patients
26. Humanizing health care
27. Expanding basic medical care
28. Developing mental health services
29. Developing medical informatics
30. Correcting eye disorders
31. Caring for the handicapped
32. Caring for the frail
33. Caring for the aged
34. Caring for people with stomas
35. Caring for people with intellectual disabilities
36. Assuring family health care
37. Assisting women in labour
38. Arranging inexpensive doctor's care
39. Arranging district medical services
40. Aiding those with incontinence

1. Treating diseases
2. Relieving human suffering
3. Improving health care
4. Healing illness
5. Ensuring a healthy environment

1. Providing sufficient medical ethics
2. Promoting health care
3. Increasing efficiency of use of available health care
4. Encouraging competent medical services
5. Developing health systems
6. Coordinating health development aid

1. Overcoming health care dependency

1. Unethical pharmaceutical practices
2. Underutilized medical services
3. Non-use of available health facilities
4. Inadequate working conditions in health and medical services
5. Inadequate health services
6. Inadequate emergency medical services
7. Dehumanization of health care
8. Compulsory health care
9. Commercialization of medical practice

1. Uncaring
2. Maltreatment
3. Health
4. Care