Health professionals maintain and improve human health through applying evidence-based medicine and caring for patients. They diagnose, treat, and prevent illness and injuries according to population needs. Their goals are to meet individual and population health needs, improve outcomes, and advance medical knowledge through research. Key health professionals include medical doctors, nurses, dentists, and pharmacists who diagnose conditions, prescribe treatment, and provide preventative care and rehabilitation.

1. Health
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2. definition of health professionals
Health professionals maintain health in humans
through the application of the principles and
procedures of evidence-based medicine and
caring. Health professionals study, diagnose,
treat and prevent human illness, injury and
other physical and mental impairments in
accordance with the needs of the populations
they serve.
They advise on or apply preventive and curative
measures, and promote health with the ultimate
goal of meeting the health needs and expectations
of individuals and populations, and improving
population health outcomes. They also conduct
research and improve or develop concepts,
theories and operational methods to advance

3. List of health professionals
Occupations in this sub-major group are
classified into several minor groups. To
facilitate the development of the WHO
guidelines for transforming and scaling up
health professional education and training, the
literature review will focus on the following list

4. Medical Doctors
both Generalist and Specialist
Practitioners, including
Public Health Doctors
(ISCO-08 minor group 221)
diagnose patient conditions using examinations and
tests. Based on their findings, they prescribe
treatment and medications to attempt to heal any
illnesses or injuries. General practitioners and
pediatricians have a wide range of medical
knowledge, and they are often the first types of
doctors who patients visit. Most doctors routinely

5. Nursing Professionals
They develop and perform functions that
relate to the promotion and maintenance of
health as well as to the prevention of ill
health.Nursing also includes the planning and
implementation of care during illness and
rehabilitation, and encompasses the physical,
mental and social aspects of life as they affect
health, illness, disability and dying.

6. Dentists
Dentists are healthcare professionals who provide
preventive and restorative treatments for problems
affecting the mouth and teeth.
Dentists' oversight of the clinical team is critical to
ensuring safe and effective oral care. Even
seemingly routine procedures such as tooth
extractions, preparing and placing fillings or
administering anesthetics carry potential risks of
complications such as infection, temporary or even

7. Pharmacists
They supply medicines in accordance with a
prescription or, when legally permitted.
The pharmacist verifies the legality, safety and
appropriateness of the prescription order, checks
the patient medication record before dispensing the
prescription (when such records are kept in the
pharmacy), ensures that the quantities of
medication are dispensed accurately, and decides
whether the medication should be handed to the
patient, with appropriate counseling, by a