Medicine and Healthcare

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Medicine

Healthcare refers to all services, practices and systems designed to maintain, improve or restore people's health. This includes :

  • Prevention: vaccination, screening, health education.
  • Diagnosis: medical examinations, laboratory analyses.
  • Treatment: drugs, surgery, therapies. This is where Medicine acts.
  • Rehabilitation: physiotherapy, occupational therapy.
  • Palliative care: accompaniment for serious illnesses or at the end of life.