Understanding Health Care vs. Medical Care: Key Differences and Current Issues (Full Transcript)

Speaker 1: Hello friends, welcome to my channel SMCI Next and in this video, we are going to discuss about the concept of health care. We have already discussed the definition of health in a previous video. In this video, we will mainly discuss about what is the current problem and what is our main concern, with whom this health is influenced and our main topic will be that what is the exact difference between health care and medical care. So let's start our today's topic, the concept of health care. Health is mainly considered as a fundamental human right. Everyone has the right to speak, whatever you want to write, the media has its own right. Similarly, health is also a human right for people that they should get proper health. And when it is a human right, then the responsibility of providing it is of the government, i.e. state owned, which mainly has to do the work of providing health care to people. So what is the current problem in this? All the health related services are mainly concentrated and are mainly urban oriented. And most of the health care facilities are curative based. If you have a disease, then you have to give treatment. It is curative based. And whenever there are curative things, then those things become very costly. They can reach limited people. Because the service providers are limited. Because of this, health care is still accessible to a very small part of the society. Because we know that only 35% of people live in urban areas and 65% live in rural areas. And the health services are almost the opposite. So basically, for most of the people, this health care system is not accessible. That is why our main concern is that we have to reach the whole population and achieve health for all. And the health care that we provide should be acceptable to the people. So whatever advice you give, that should be appropriate and acceptable. If you look at health, then health care is totally affected. Food supply, housing, sanitation, lifestyle, environment, all these things affect health. So providing health care means providing proper sanitation, providing a good house, good water supply, and a healthy environment. So this is a very broad concept. And it is different from medical care because health care can be provided by anyone. The one who does cleanliness is also providing health care. The one who has opened a gym is also providing health care. A dietitian also provides health care. Whereas medical care is a limited concept, which is mainly physician-centric. The one who has a disease, they are given domiciliary care or hospital-based care. They are given drugs. So medical care is the limited concept. Health care is the broader concept. Medical care can be provided by mainly the physicians, licensed doctors. Where the health care provided by anyone, ASHA, Anganwadi, they are also providing the health care. It is a deprofessionalization of the medicine. So we can say that medical care is a subset of health care. That is why we can say that health promotion comes under health care. People's maintenance of health. Maintaining the health, staying healthy, monitoring it, and restoring it after the disease. All these things come under health care. I hope you have understood the difference between health care and medical care. This is the end of this video. Thanks for listening.