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  2. Health care - Wikipedia

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    While the definitions of the various types of health care vary depending on the different cultural, political, organizational, and disciplinary perspectives, there appears to be some consensus that primary care constitutes the first element of a continuing health care process and may also include the provision of secondary and tertiary levels ...

  3. Public health system in India - Wikipedia

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    The healthcare system is organised into primary, secondary, and tertiary levels. At the primary level are Sub Centres and Primary Health Centres (PHCs). At the secondary level there are Community Health Centres (CHCs) and smaller Sub-District hospitals. Finally, the top level of public care provided by the government is the tertiary level ...

  4. Community health - Wikipedia

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    Medical interventions that occur in communities can be classified as three categories: Primary care, Secondary care, and Tertiary care. [3] Each category focuses on a different level and approach towards the community or population group. In the United States, Community health is rooted within Primary healthcare achievements.

  5. Tertiary referral hospital - Wikipedia

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    A tertiary referral hospital (also called a tertiary hospital, tertiary referral center, tertiary care center, or tertiary center) is a hospital that provides tertiary care, [1] which is a level of health care obtained from specialists in a large hospital after referral from the providers of primary care and secondary care. [2] Beyond that ...

  6. Educational stage - Wikipedia

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    Educational stages are subdivisions of formal learning, typically covering early childhood education, primary education, secondary education and tertiary education.The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization recognizes nine levels of education in its International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) system (from Level 0 (pre-primary education) through Level 8 ...

  7. Preventive healthcare - Wikipedia

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    Preventive healthcare strategies are described as taking place at the primal, [2] primary, [13] secondary, and tertiary prevention levels. Although advocated as preventive medicine in the early twentieth century by Sara Josephine Baker, [14] in the 1940s, Hugh R. Leavell and E. Gurney Clark coined the term primary prevention.

  8. Classification of Chinese hospitals - Wikipedia

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    A tertiary hospital is a comprehensive, referral, general hospitals at the city, provincial or national level with a bed capacity exceeding 500. They are responsible for providing specialist health services, perform a bigger role with regard to medical education and scientific research and they serve as medical hubs providing care to multiple ...

  9. Secondary hospital - Wikipedia

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    A secondary hospital, secondary referral center or a secondary care center is a healthcare facility that provides specialized medical care and support for patients referred from primary healthcare centers. Secondary hospitals typically serve as a bridge between primary care and tertiary hospitals, which offer