What are medical services?

Medical services refer to the health promotion services provided by health technicians in accordance with the technical standards of practice for the care of life and the diagnosis and treatment of diseases, as well as the services provided for the realization of these services, such as medicines, medical equipment, assistance and transportation, and accommodation in wards.

Care for life mainly refers to the care and protection of the natural process of life from conception to death, such as pregnancy care, childbirth support, end-of-life care, preventive health care, etc.; diagnosis and treatment of disease mainly refers to the identification of the human body after being damaged by the cause of the disease, and adjustment of the functional disorders or injuries, in order to improve the function and restore health.

Medical service is a concept widely used from daily life to policies and regulations and national development strategies. A clear concept of medical service is needed to regulate the service content of medical institutions, to define the scope of application of medical service and various types of life and health insurance, to deal with the relationship between doctors and patients, and to develop social health undertakings.

In different contexts, the scope of medical services is different, the narrow sense of medical services mainly refers to the medical staff to provide diagnosis and treatment of disease services, can also be called clinical medical services. Traditionally, medical services are mainly provided in the hospital diagnosis and treatment, prevention, rehabilitation, etc., from the patient consultation, and the hospital to establish a service relationship, until the end of the treatment, cured and discharged from the hospital or death of the whole process. Modern medical services in the hospital to strengthen medical services at the same time, pay attention to the extension of the hospital to carry out social medical services, including post-discharge follow-up, family hospital beds, people's health education, disease screening, social medical assistance and counterpart support, medical care in the countryside.