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Long-term care ( LTC) is a variety of services which help meet both the medical and non-medical needs of people with a chronic illness or disability who cannot care for themselves for long periods. Long-term care is focused on individualized and coordinated services that promote independence, maximize patients' quality of life, and meet ...
Publicly funded health care. Publicly funded healthcare is a form of health care financing designed to meet the cost of all or most healthcare needs from a publicly managed fund. Usually this is under some form of democratic accountability, the right of access to which are set down in rules applying to the whole population contributing to the ...
Standard of care. In tort law, the standard of care is the only degree of prudence and caution required of an individual who is under a duty of care . The requirements of the standard are closely dependent on circumstances. [1] Whether the standard of care has been breached is determined by the trier of fact, and is usually phrased in terms of ...
Advanced industrial countries (with the exception of the United States) and many developing countries provide medical services through a system of universal health care that aims to guarantee care for all through a single-payer health care system, or compulsory private or co-operative health insurance. This is intended to ensure that the entire ...
Health care in Cuba consists of a government-coordinated system that guarantees universal coverage and consumes a lower proportion of the nation's GDP (7.3%) than some highly privatised systems (e.g. USA: 16%) (OECD 2008). The system does charge fees in treating elective treatment for patients from abroad, but tourists who fall ill are treated ...
Health care provider. A health care provider is an individual health professional or a health facility organization licensed to provide health care diagnosis and treatment services including medication, surgery and medical devices. Health care providers often receive payments for their services rendered from health insurance providers.
Healthcare in Canada is delivered through the provincial and territorial systems of publicly funded health care, informally called Medicare. [1] [2] It is guided by the provisions of the Canada Health Act of 1984, [3] and is universal. [4] : 81 The 2002 Royal Commission, known as the Romanow Report, revealed that Canadians consider universal ...
Copayment. A copayment or copay (called a gap in Australian English) is a fixed amount for a covered service, paid by a patient to the provider of service before receiving the service. It may be defined in an insurance policy and paid by an insured person each time a medical service is accessed. It is technically a form of coinsurance, but is ...