Basic medical care given to an injured victim, usually where the injury is slight or where better care is not available.

Responding to an emergency situation - heart attacks, bleeding, drowning, choking, poisoning, electrocution, spinal injuries, eye injuries and scalds and burns are typical situations where having a basic knowledge of what to do.

Emergency treatment administered to an injured or sick person before professional medical care is available.

A level of medical care provided by prehospital emergency medical services. Basic life support consists of essential non-invasive life-saving procedures including CPR, bleeding control, splinting broken bones, artificial ventilation, and basic airway management.

First aid is important because it helps the casualty be safe until medical help arrives.

You can save someone’s life.

Accidents happen, always unexpectedly, having a basic knowledge of first aid is just being wise.

Prevent further harm: Also sometimes called prevent the condition from worsening, this covers both external factors, such as moving a patient away from any cause of harm, and applying first aid techniques to prevent worsening of the condition, such as applying pressure to stop a bleed becoming dangerous.

Preserve life: The overriding aim of all medical care, including first aid, is to save lives.

Promote recovery: First aid also involves trying to start the recovery process from the illness or injury, and in some cases might involve completing a treatment, such as in the case of applying a plaster to a small wound.

A general term refers to the delivery of medical services by specialist providers, such as midwives, doctors, nurses, home health aides, vaccination technicians and physician's assistants. Usually such services receive payment from the patient or from the patient's insurance company, although they may be government-financed or delivered by charities or volunteers, particularly in poorer countries.

The prevention, treatment, and management of illness and the preservation of mental and physical well-being through the services offered by the medical and allied health professions.

Healthcare is important because we are having plenty of issues with people being uninsured, just think about it what if you couldn't get checkups you would probably die if the problem is severe ,so you see this is a problem that continues to get worse and worse every year. It is very common to find people underestimating the situation thinking that it can't happen to them that it only happens to the poor little do they know it will eventually come back.

reducing exclusion and social disparities in health (universal coverage reforms);

organizing health services around people's needs and expectations (service delivery reforms);

integrating health into all sectors (public policy reforms);

pursuing collaborative models of policy dialogue (leadership reforms); and

increasing stakeholder participation.