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health care system |
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health care system, the complete network of agencies, facilities, and all providers of health care in a specified geographic area. Nursing services are integral to all levels and patterns of care, and nurses form the largest number of providers in a health care system. health care system an organized plan of health services by which health care is made available to the animal population and financed by government or private enterprise or both. A health care system embraces the following: (1) health care services available to individual animals and to groups through private practices and government veterinary officer services in veterinary clinics, laboratories and hospitals and the clients' own homes and on farms, in stables and other group animal facilities; (2) the veterinary preventive medical services needed to maintain a healthy environment; for example, control of medicine and food supplies, regulation of drugs, and control of the movement of animals intended to protect a given population; and (3) teaching and research activities related to the prevention and treatment of disease. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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THE MEDICALIZATION OF SOCIETY: ON THE TRANSFORMATION OF HUMAN CONDITIONS INTO TREATABLE DISORDERS provides an overview of a field which recounts our love/hate relationship with the health professionals and the business side of health care systems, making for a complex analysis perfect for college-level health libraries and social science collections alike. THE MEDICALIZATION OF SOCIETY: ON THE TRANSFORMATION OF HUMAN CONDITIONS INTO TREATABLE DISORDERS provides an overview of a field which recounts our love/hate relationship with the health professionals and the business side of health care systems, making for a complex analysis perfect for college-level health libraries and social science collections alike. There are plans in place to spread the use of the system to the Department of Defense and to health care systems outside the United States. |
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