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or maintains fitness and overall health. It is performed for various reasons, including weight loss or maintenance, to aid growth and improve strength...

or ambulatory care clinic) is a health facility that is primarily focused on the care of outpatients. Clinics can be privately operated or publicly managed...

The World Health Organization (WHO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations responsible for international public health. It is headquartered in...

determinants of health of a population and the threats it faces is the basis for public health. The public can be as small as a handful of people or as...

Health care, or healthcare, is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and...

regions of the world (mainly due to high infant mortality). Another holistic perspective called One Health can be used to address global health challenges...

this type of health care provider include lay health worker, village health worker, community health aide, community health promoter, and health advisor...

Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is a cabinet-level executive branch department of the U.S. federal government created to protect the health of the...

Krankenversicherung). The turnover of the national health sector was about US$368.78 billion (€287.3 billion) in 2010, equivalent to 11.6 percent of gross domestic product...

Coming out of the closet, often shortened to coming out, is a metaphor used to describe LGBT people's self-disclosure of their sexual orientation, romantic...

operates out of 158 offices across India with 8500+ employees. Care Health Insurance (Formerly Religare Health Insurance) has been a subsidiary of Religare...

frequently zoning out. Mental health, as defined by the Public Health Agency of Canada, is an individual's capacity to feel, think, and act in ways to achieve a...

must be provided, to whom, and on what basis. The logistics of such health care systems vary by country. Some programs are paid for entirely out of tax...

smartphone app to record data that will be integrated with the health ministry, which is involved in carrying out immunization, health check-ups, and...

safety and health (OSH) or occupational health and safety (OHS) is a multidisciplinary field concerned with the safety, health, and welfare of people at...

of Britain's National Health Service, however they were voted out of office in 1949, before they had sufficient Senate support to pass the legislation...

the reverse. The percentages of health care costs that plans are expected to cover through premiums (as opposed to out-of-pocket costs) are, on average:...

Health equity arises from access to the social determinants of health, specifically from wealth, power and prestige. Individuals who have consistently...

to LGBT health include breast and cervical cancer, hepatitis, mental health, substance use disorders, alcohol use, tobacco use, depression, access to...

The secretary of state for health and social care, also referred to as the health secretary, is a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom...