Preferred label
Health care
Alternative label
Medical care
Broader term
Activities
Narrower terms
Acupuncture
Birth control
Blood donations
Blood testing
Blood transfusions
Dental hygiene
Emergency medical services
Eye examinations
First aid
Healing
Injections
Institutional care
Medical screening
Nursing
Prenatal care
Preventive medicine
Quarantines
Therapy
Vaccinations
Related terms
Biofeedback training
Chiropractors
Examinations
Healers
Health
Health care facilities
Health education
Health insurance
Medicaid
Medicare
Medicine
Midwives
Opticians' shops
Pharmacists
Physicians
Quacks
Radiologists
Sick persons
State medicine
Therapeutic baths
Tube feeding
Scope note
Activities or systems directed at maintaining or improving health. Search under HEALING for specific curing practices and for the process of getting well.
Editorial note
Used in a note under HEALING.
Change note
Formerly TGMI term.