A health care provider is an individual or an institution that provides preventive, curative, promotional, or rehabilitative health care services in a systematic way to individuals, families or communities.
An individual health care provider (also known as a health worker) may be a health care professional within medicine, nursing, or a field of allied health. Health care providers may also be a public/community health professional. Institutions (also known as health facilities) include hospitals, clinics, primary care centres, and other service delivery points.
Health care practitioners are commonly grouped into four key fields:
- Medical (including generalist practitioners and specialists);
- Nursing (including various professional titles);
- Dentistry;
- Health Professions, including [occupational therapist] pharmacy, physical therapy, paramedicine, respiratory therapy, and many others health specialists.
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