What is Health Care?
Plainly defined, health care or health care, includes the treatment, management and prevention of illness with the intent to preserve the physical and mental well being of an individual through the various health services available. Health Care therefore embraces the preventive, palliative and curative aspects of health whether are it specific to a certain individual or a target population.
Therefore, health care encompasses anything and everything that has to do with the well being of a person which includes but not limited to health care professionals and health organizations. In majority of developed countries, health care can be availed of regardless of socio-economic status, gender, age or race. Health care is a basic right that must be accorded to citizens of every country.