Question

Define:
a) OPD
b) PHC
c) Medical tourists
d) Communicable diseases​

Answer 1

Answer:

OPD - Outpatient Department

OPD stands for the Outpatient Department. An OPD is a hospital department designed to be a first contact point between the patient and the hospital staff. A Patient who goes first time to the hospital, he directly goes to OPD and then the OPD decides to which department a patient should go.

PHC - PRIMARY HEALTH CARE: Primary health care (PHC) is on essential part of health care and its main principles are equity, health promotion and disease prevention, community participation, appropriate health technology and multisectoral approach.

Medical Tourists - Medical tourism refers to people traveling abroad to obtain medical treatment. In the past, this usually referred to those who traveled from less-developed countries to major medical centers in highly developed countries for treatment  unavailable at home.

Communicable Diseases - Communicable diseases, also known as infectious diseases or transmissible diseases, are illnesses that result from the infection, presence and growth of pathogenic (capable of causing disease) biologic agents in an individual human or other animal host.

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