Forms of care delivery

Medical care is administered in following forms:

1) Outpatient care which includes primary medical care, consultative and diagnostic care;

2) Hospital care;

3) Hospital-replacing care;

4) Emergency medical service;

5) Air medical service;

6) Medical care in an emergency;

7) Restorative care and medical rehabilitation;

8) Palliative care and nursing care;

9) Traditional medicine, folk medicine (healing).

Primary medical care (PMC) is pre-medical or qualified medical assistance without round-the-clock medical supervision, which includes a set of available medical services provided at the level of individual, family and society:

1) Diagnosis and treatment of the most common diseases, injuries, poisoning and other emergency;

2) Sanitary and hygienic, anti-epidemic arrangements and prevention of diseases;

3) Educative activities.

PMC is provided by following specialists: primary care physicians, pediatricians, obstetrician-gynecologists, general practice doctors, medical assistants and nurses. The activities of organizations that provide primary health care are based on the territorial principle in order to ensure access to health care to citizens at their place of residence and (or) the attachment with the right of free choice of medical organization.

Consultative and diagnostic careis specialized or tertiarymedical care without round-the clock supervision.

Hospital careis form of administering of qualified, specialized and tertiary medical care with round-the clock supervision. Healthcare organization which administer hospital care provide proper care and nutrition.

Hospital-replacing care is form of administering pre-doctor, qualified specialized and tertiary medical care with medical supervision lasting from 4 to 8 hours per day.

Emergency medical serviceis form of administering medical care in the event of diseases and conditions that require emergency medical care to prevent significant harm or to eliminate threat to life. Emergency medical assistance is free of charge from the state budget for citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan, foreigners and stateless persons. Organizations of ambulance are prohibited from engaging in paid services.

Air medical serviceis form of emergency medical care at impossibility of administering medical care due to lack of equipment or trained staff in the medical organization at the location of the patient. Providing medical care is carried out by delivery of qualified specialists to the place of destination or transportation of the patient to the appropriate medical organization by various kinds of transport.

Restorative care and medical rehabilitationare administered to the citizens suffering from inborn and acquired diseases and also from consequences of acute and chronic diseases and injures in departments of rehabilitation and sanatorium-and-spa organizations.

Palliative care and nursing careare administered under the guidance of a doctor for incurably-ill patients in the terminal (final) stage of the disease in the specialized departments of the hospital, hospice or in the form of hospital at home. Nursing care is carried out in cases which do not require medical supervision.

Date: 2016-04-22; view: 888