The delivery of modern health care depends on groups of
trained professionals and paraprofessionals coming together as
interdisciplinary teams. This includes professionals in medicine, nursing,
dentistry and allied health, plus many others such as public health
practitioners, community health workers and assistive personnel, who
systematically provide personal and population-based preventive, curative and
rehabilitative care services.
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, that may
also include the provision of secondary and tertiary levels of care. Healthcare
can be defined as either public or private healthcare.
