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2. Health service providers help in promoting and
securing the health and wellness of individuals.
They provide various forms of services according to
what the individual needs. Health service providers
can be classified into three categories: healthcare
professionals, health facilities, and healthcare plans
and financing system.

3. Healthcare Professionals
Healthcare professionals, which include health
practitioners and healthcare providers, offer systematic
healthcare services to people, families, and communities
through the use of various methods like preventive, curative,
promotional, and rehabilitative measures.
Each healthcare professionals has his or her own field of
expertise within the branches of healthcare such as
medicine, surgery, dentistry, midwifery, pharmacy,
psychology, nursing, and other allied healthcare
professionals. A healthcare professional may also be
involved in public health and community works.

4. Healthcare professionals include the following:
• Medical doctors – both generalist and specialist
practitioners, including public health doctors
• Nursing professionals, including public health
nurses
• Midwifery professionals, including public health
midwives
• Dentists
• Pharmacists

5. Health Facilities
These facilities offer healthcare and services. Some
examples are hospitals, clinics, outpatient clinics, healthcare
centers, and specialized healthcare centers, such as birthing
centers and psychiatric care centers.
In choosing health facilities, the following factors should be
considered.
• How close it is where you live or work
• Whether your health insurance will pay for your health
services
• Whether your health provider can treat you there
• The quality of the facility.

6. Hospitals
Hospitals are institutions comprising professionally-
trained doctors, nurses, paramedical clinicians, and other
medical and administrative staff who provide health and
services.
Some hospitals typically offer specialized treatment for
inpatients-patients who stay in the hospital while they
receive treatment, while others primarily admit patients
who suffer from a particular disease or infection.

7. Healthcare Centers
Healthcare centers can be found in the community.
The healthcare professionals working in these centers
offer outpatient, medical, nursing dental, and other types
of healthcare services. Some examples are clinics,
doctor’s offices, urgent healthcare centers, and
ambulatory surgery centers.

8. Medical nursing Homes
Are healthcare institutions which consist of facilities
that can accommodate and offer general or specialized
medical treatment in short term or long term. Residential
treatment centers and geriatric care facilities are some
examples.
Pharmacies and Drugstores
Are comprised of pharmacist, pharmacy technician,
and pharmacy aides. These establishments deals with the
retail of prescription or non-prescription drugs and
medicines, orthopedic goods.

9. Medical Laboratory and Research
Conduct tests on biological specimens for the
purpose of obtaining information regarding the patient’s
health. These laboratory covers various field of study
including microbiology, hematology, clinical
biochemistry, immunology, serology, histology,
cytology, cytogenetics, and virology among others.
Healthcare Plans and Financing Systems
They consist of organizations of people, institutions,
and resources which can be found around the world;
each one having its own history and organizational

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