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The delivery of modern health care depends on an expanding group of highly trained professionals coming together as an interdisciplinary team. Individuals are called health professionals if thay participate in delivery of medical care in some way. Thus, it is a rather broad term.
Health profession means a profession in which a person exercises skill or judgment or provides a service related to:
(a) the preservation or improvement of the health of individuals, or
(b) the treatment or care of individuals who are injured, sick, disabled or infirm.
The foundation sciences underpinning human medicine overlap veterinary medicine.
See also :
alternative medicine, bioengineers, Chinese medicine, dentist - Dentistry , laboratory scientists , medicine, nurseIn the health care professions, a nurse is someone who practices nursing professionally. Nurses are responsible (with others) for the safety and recovery of acutely ill or injured people, health maintenance of the healthy, and treatment of life-threatenin, nutritionNutrition is interpreted as: The organic process by which an organism assimilates and uses food and liquids for normal functioning, growth and maintenance; The study of the relationship of food and drink to health and disease. The idea of an optimal balan, nutritionists, occupational therapyOccupational Therapists work with the disabled, the elderly, newborns, school-aged children, and with anyone who has a permanent or temporary impairment in their physical or mental functioning. The aim of occupational therapy is to help the client to perf, occupational therapistsOccupational Therapists work with the disabled, the elderly, newborns, school-aged children, and with anyone who has a permanent or temporary impairment in their physical or mental functioning. The aim of occupational therapy is to help the client to perf, paramedic, pharmacist, pharmacists, physician, physiotherapists, sanitary professions speech therapists, veterinarian