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What is Health Care Service

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Handbook of Research on ICTs for Human-Centered Healthcare and Social Care Services
Health care is the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in humans. A health care system or service is the organization of people, institutions, and resources to deliver health care services to target populations. The exact configuration of health care systems varies from country to country.
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Social Networks as a Tool to Improve the Life Quality of Chronic Patients and Their Relatives
Miguel Guinalíu (University of Zaragoza, Spain), Javier Marta (Hospital Universitario Miguel Servet, Spain), and José María Subero (Aragón Government, Spain)
Copyright: © 2013 |Pages: 15
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-4666-3986-7.ch009
Abstract
The evolution of society has modified the medical needs of the population from social and economic criteria. Social networks can partially help these new medical demands contributing to improve the life quality of chronic patients and their relatives through the modification of the ways of communication and interaction. In order to analyze the real value of social networks in this chapter the authors study a real case. This analysis allows them to identify the benefits that social networks can provide to chronic patients, as well as the barriers that must be considered to implement them as health service tools.
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