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PERSONAL HEALTH SERVICES [2 records]

Record 1 1999-02-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Medical and Hospital Organization
CONT

... personal health services may be preventive, curative or rehabilitative in their purpose. ... Included in personal services are not only treatment and immunization services but health examination and screening carried out for health purposes and health education of the public.

OBS

HOHEA: Hogarth, J. Glossary of health care terminology. Copenhagen, WHO Regional Office for Europe, 1978. (Public Health in Europe, No. 4).

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organisation médico-hospitalière

Spanish

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Record 2 1986-07-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Social Services and Social Work
CONT

Personal health services are those that individuals receive directly as opposed to those affecting them through the environment or other indirect means, such as sanitation measures. The private practice of medicine or dentistry is a personal health service, as is hospital care.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Services sociaux et travail social
CONT

Les services de protection contre le milieu et de prévention générale... sont distincts des services personnels de santé. Ces derniers ont tout d'abord été considérés comme étant en dehors de la sphère d'action du gouvernement, mais il est aujourd'hui difficile de maintenir cette distinction... L'immunisation, les soins pré et postnataux, les soins aux nourrissons... sont des services personnels.

Spanish

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