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Health Facilities and Services Overview

Hospitals, health centers, pharmacies, medical laboratories, and research facilities all play important roles in the healthcare system. Hospitals are health facilities that operate 24/7 and have qualified staff to provide various medical services and treatments. Health centers offer primary care, family planning, preventative services, dental care, and behavioral health services from collaborating providers. Pharmacies dispense prescriptions and provide health products, services, and information. Medical laboratories and research confirm diagnoses, detect diseases, and regulate therapy, while also identifying illness in individuals and groups and detecting environmental contaminants.

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Health Facilities and Services Overview

Hospitals, health centers, pharmacies, medical laboratories, and research facilities all play important roles in the healthcare system. Hospitals are health facilities that operate 24/7 and have qualified staff to provide various medical services and treatments. Health centers offer primary care, family planning, preventative services, dental care, and behavioral health services from collaborating providers. Pharmacies dispense prescriptions and provide health products, services, and information. Medical laboratories and research confirm diagnoses, detect diseases, and regulate therapy, while also identifying illness in individuals and groups and detecting environmental contaminants.

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HEALTH FACILITIES MEDICAL IMPORTANCE

PROCEDURES
• physical examination The hospital is an important part
• tests, x-rays and scans of the health-care system.
• treatments to repair the Hospitals are health-care
effects of injury, disease or facilities with a well-organized
malfunctions, including
medical and other qualified staff
medicines, physical and
to provide medical, nursing,
radiation therapies
HOSPITALS • allied health treatments to radiography, laboratory, and
improve, maintain or other related services 24 hours a
restore a person’s physical day, 7 days a week.
function
• cosmetic procedures to
improve a person’s physical
appearance for aesthetic
reasons.

▪ Primary care Medical, dental, mental health,


▪ Family planning and health promotion are all
▪ Preventative care services provided in one location at
HEALTH CENTERS ▪
▪
Behavioral healthcare
Dental care
health centers. More
importantly, providers from all
▪ Women’s care
of these professions collaborate
▪ Internal medicine
▪ More… to ensure the best possible
treatment for the patient.
• dispensing of NHS Pharmacy services, goods, and
prescriptions information are a significant
• access to the repeat source of health services,
PHARMACIES •
prescription service
an emergency supply of
products, and information,
especially in the context of high
medicine, subject to the
maternal mortality and
decision of the pharmacist
• non-prescription medicines morbidity, crucial health-worker
like paracetamol shortages, poorly supplied
• disposal of unwanted or clinics, and high unmet need for
out-of-date medicines family planning.
• advice on treating minor
health concerns and
healthy living

• Confirming provisional Public health relies heavily on


diagnosis of the clinician laboratory medicine. It is critical
MEDICAL • Ruling out a diagnosis for illness identification in
LABORATORY AND • Detecting disease individuals and groups.
• Regulating therapy Environmental contaminants
RESEARCH such as lead can also be
detected through laboratory
tests.

Name: Angelica Beatrice I Cabaddu Grade/Section:10- St. Clement

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