Choosing Health Services

Any service provided to individuals or communities that promote, maintain, or restore health.

• Health Care System

• Skills

• Health Care

• Preventive Care

All the medical care available to a nation's people, the way they receive the care, and the way the care is paid for.

• Health Care

• Health Care System

• Preventive Care

• Primary Care Provider

Someone who provides checkups and general care; in your case, they are probably a pediatrician.

• Health Care

• Primary Care Provider

• Preventive Care

• Allied Health Professional

Medical professionals who perform duties which would otherwise have to be performed by doctors of nurses; examples include pharmacists, health educators, counselors, mental health therapists, dentists, physical therapists, and nutritionists.

• Preventive Care

• Pediatrician

• Allied Health Professional

• Specialist

This type of health care is aimed at revealing health problems while they are minor.

This type of health care professional is trained to treat a special category of patients; or specific health problems.

Tis health care setting provides patient care 24 hours a day, seven days a week; also performs complex surgeries and emergency medical care.

A plan in which a person pays a set fee to a company in return for the company's agreement to pay some or all medical expenses when needed.

• Preventive care

• Hospice care

• Health Insurance

• Medicaid

An insurance plan that saves money by encouraging patients to select less costly forms of care.

• Health Insurance

• Medicaid

• Medicare

• Managed Care Plan

This law enacted in 2010 is to ensure all U.S. citizens have access to affordable health care.

• Preventive Care Act

• Managed Care Plan

• Affordable Care Act

• Health Maintenance Organization