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Hospital is a site intended for patient care, to provide the diagnosis, which can be of various types and the treatment needed. Historically, the hospitals have emerged as places of welcome of patients and pilgrims, during the middle ages.

Currently there is differentiation between public hospitals and private large and midsize enterprises depend on their sponsor entity and the number of beds they offer. Government hospitals in turn can be regional and local agreement with the service area of the population being assisted, are funded and maintained by the State, being the lower cost for patients compared to private hospitals.

Hospitals can also be classified by the type of services they provide: General and specialized surgery, monitoring of natural events such as childbirth (maternity), aging (geriatric hospitals and Asylums) or the character of urgency and emergency demand. Accordingly may constitute as hospital of specific character, following the divisions of medical specialty by sex, age and/or attention to specific pathologies (cancer hospital, psychiatric hospital, ophthalmology etc.) or establish itself as a general hospital.

Work in hospital cleaning professionals, directors, directors, reception, and particularly health professionals, such as doctors, dental surgeons, nurses, physiotherapists, etc. The planning of the services to be offered and the study of the relationship of hospital unit with other health units is carried out by public health professionals and Government health authorities, politically and legally constituted.

The main departments of a hospital’s clinical (Medical Board) and the average file service and statistics; the administrative sector of maintenance and the financial sector. A “General Hospital” the services offered vary greatly and that these departments also have. They may have serious cases to support services, such as emergency department trauma Centre, unit of Burns, emergency surgery or emergency care. These can be supported by specialist units, such as intensive care, cardiology, Neurology, obstetrics and Gynecology and Oncology.

There are also support units, which assist in medical diagnosis and treatment. The most common of these are pharmacy, pathology and radiology.

The Medicine conceptualized the disease, reducing it to the individualized ethological causality.[citation needed] This refers to the empirical analytical methods-(structural-functionalists), phenomenological, and one-off and enhancement opportunities admits gradual able to be described (while Pathology) and/or quantified (assessment of therapeutic efficacy).

Public health focuses its action through the eyes of the State with the interests he represents in different forms of social and political organization of populations. In more traditional design is the application of knowledge (or not), with the goal of organizing health systems and services, Act on factors and determinants of health process constraints-disease controlling the incidence of diseases in populations through surveillance actions and Government interventions. Not to be confused with the broader concept of collective health.The object of research and practice of collective health comprises the following dimensions:

1. the State of health of the population or health conditions of specific population groups and general trends epidemiologically, demographic, socio-economic and cultural;
2. health-care services, as institutions of different levels of complexity (from the clinic to the specialist hospital), including the study of the process of working on health, the formulation and implementation of health policies, as well as the evaluation of plans, programs and technologies used in health care;
3. knowledge about health, including historical research, sociological, anthropological and epistemological knowledge production in this field and on the relations between the know “scientific” and the popular conceptions and practices of health, influenced by traditions, beliefs, and culture in General.

The relief of suffering, compassion for the sick and their relatives, the impeccable control of symptoms and pain, the quest for autonomy and for maintaining an active life while it lasts: these are some of the principles of Palliative Care; finally, begin to be recognized in all spheres of society.

To accomplish this, you need to evaluate and control of impeccable form not only pain, but all symptoms of physical, social, emotional and spiritual. The Palliative treatment must gather the skills of a professional team to help the patient adapt to changes of life imposed by illness. For this work to be performed requires a minimum team consists of: a doctor, a psychologist, a social worker and at least one rehabilitation area professional (to be been patient as needed).

The World Health Organization has designed a model of intervention in palliative care palliative where the actions have already started at the time of diagnosis and the palliative care develops together with the capable of the course treatment of the disease. The alleviation and importance to the expression gets sick as the treatment disease modifier (in search of healing) loses its effectiveness. End of life stage, palliative care are compelling and linger in the period of mourning, individualized manner.

Actions include therapeutic measures for the control of symptoms, physical and spiritual support self-protective interventions to the patient of the diagnosis to death. For the relatives, the actions are divided between spiritual and social support interventions and self-protective diagnostic period of mourning. An appropriate program also includes measures of spiritual support and psychotherapy for the team, in addition to professional continuing education.

The ideal condition for the development of a satisfactory service should comprise a network of actions composed of outpatient, inpatient and home care in units of medium complexity, intended for control of clinical cases and end of life care.