What is health care

The health care is the applied sciences and biomedical sciences. They focus on the health of man or the animal. They involve not only research, study and knowledge of health, but also the application of this knowledge in order to improve health, cure disease and improve the functioning of the body.

Health care is based on the medicine, the pharmacy, the biology, the chemistry and physics and the social sciences (e.g. sociology ).

Health care is contemporary mores and reflect the themes of ethics and bioethics, such as privacy, the abortion, the euthanasia, the cloning or the genetic manipulation.

The health care sector includes a wide range of disciplines.

In health of body
1. Medicine
2. Pharmacy
3. Nursing
4. Obstetrics

In Mental Health
1. Psychotherapy
2. Psychoanalysis
3. Psychiatry

In veterinary health
1. Animal welfare
2. Animal euthanasia

Branches of medicine

• Medicine Internal
• Physical medicine and rehabilitation
• Emergency Medicine
• Nephrology
• Neurology
• Pediatrics
• Pulmonology
• Psychiatry
• Rheumatology
• Toxicology

Branches of surgery

• General surgery
• Cardiothoracic Surgery
• Maxillofacial Surgery and Stomatology
• Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology
• Pediatric surgery
• Plastic surgery
• Vascular Surgery
• Visceral and digestive
• Dental surgery
• Gynaecology - Obstetrics
• Neurosurgery
• Ophthalmology
• Ear, Nose and Throat
• Urology

Branches of pathology

• Pathology
• Clinical Biochemistry
• Biology interventional
• Medical Biology
• Reproductive Biology
• Pathological Cytology
• Genetics Biological
• Biological hematology
• Immunopathology
• Forensic Medicine
• Medical Microbiology
• Cell Therapy
• Gene therapy
• Transfusion

Branches of the medical imaging

• Ultrasound
• Nuclear Medicine
• Radiology ( Interventional Radiology )

Other branches

• Epidemiology
• Maieutic
• Sports medicine
• Occupational medicine
• Pharmacy
• Radiobiology
• Public Health
• Palliative Care