: ''Main article: [[Health care]]. See also [[#Public health|Public health]], below''
Health care is the prevention, treatment, and management of illness and the preservation of mental and physical well being through the services offered by the [[Medicineවෛද්ය විද්යාව|medical]], [[nursing]], and [[allied health]] professions. According to the [[World Health Organization]], health care embraces all the goods and services designed to promote health, including “preventive, curative and palliative interventions, whether directed to individuals or to populations”.<ref>{{cite book | author = World Heath Organization Report. | title= Chapter 1: Why do health systems matter? | publisher=WHO| | url = http://www.who.int/whr/2000/en/ | year = 2000 || accessdate = 2008-02-19}}</ref> The organized provision of such services may constitute a [[health care system]]. This can include a specific governmental organization such as the [[National Health Service]] in the UK, or a cooperation across the National Health Service and Social Services as in [[Shared Care]].
==== Workplace wellness programs ====
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=== Putting health knowledge to use ===
Applied health sciences also endeavor to better understand health, but in addition they try to directly improve it. Some of these are: [[biomedical engineering]], [[biotechnology]], [[nursing]], [[nutrition]], [[pharmacology]], [[pharmacy]], [[public health]] ([[#Public health|see below]]), [[psychology]], [[physical therapy]], and [[medicineවෛද්ය විද්යාව]]. The provision of services to maintain or improve people's health is referred to as health care (see above).
