Providers of your health

2. - can be defined as any institutions or professionals who
are accredited or licensed to practice health care under
existing laws.
- examples are hospitals and clinics and health care
professionals such as doctors, nurses, medical staffs,
counselors, psychologists, and the likes.

3. • is a mechanism where people prepare for possible
medical needs in the future and pay through a
scheduled personal contribution or direct salary
deductions.
• this composes the medical and dental coverage of
individual including the amount and number of
illnesses to be shouldered by the health agency or
company.

4. • are those areas or tools being used to deliver or
practice health services. Commonly, these can be
associated with hospitals, clinics, and health centers
that may be public or privately owned by companies
or individuals.

6. HOSPITAL

7. CLINIC

8. MEDICAL
NURSING
RESIDENCE

9. DRUG
STORES

10. MEDICAL
LABORATORIES

11. • a major health care facility which provides
preventive, diagnostic, curative, and
rehabilitative treatment to patients.

12. • PREVENTIVE
as it may serve as a health-arm of Department of
Health to release bulletins and advisories on how to avoid
and manage any illnesses in the community. Hospital may
also conduct seminars and fora in various barangays
promoting healthy lifestyle.

13. • DIAGNOSTIC
as it has equipment to detect any forms of illnesses
and its veracity.
• CURATIVE
as health professionals perform the most sensitive
to simple operations to treat the patients, they also
prescribe medicines and medical management for
complete healing.

14. • REHABILITATIVE
as it takes care of the delivery and restoration of
normal functions of body parts.

15. • the entry point of patients for the help of health
professionals. Outpatient consultations, first aid, dental
procedures, counseling, psychotherapy, immunizations
can be performed in these facilities. Clinics like lying-in
and dental are usually run by private practitioners while
health centers are run by government.

16. • These facilities house patients to provide short-term or
long-term treatment of their general or specific condition
which hospitals may not perform such as trauma,
alcoholic, or drug addiction residential treatment centers,
viral affected patients and many more.

17. • These are accredited establishments that sell medicines
and other medical goods or paraphernalia. These may be
found in hospitals or as a separate entity being managed
by a licensed pharmacist, medial technologists, staff, and
technicians.

18. • The health care facility where examination of specimens
and laboratory tests are conducted to rule out any
possible illnesses. Experts make also their experiments
and clinical study here to understand the emerging virus
and disease outbreak in the country.

19. • PhilHealth
a government agency that enjoins employees both
in government and private to pay for their monthly
contribution which will be used for their hospitalization.
• Health Maintenance Organizations (HMO)
a type of health plan where individual company-
employed or self-employed enroll to secure their
hospitalization and other health expenses.

20. • Health Insurance Plan
there are people who opt to buy a health insurance
plan which includes certain amount of money to be used
during hospitalization. This cannot be used yet unless fully
paid or if the provisions of the plan declare otherwise.