Redefining health as the effort to derive pleasure and value from life's journey suggests that the purpose of health care is to help each person achieve four major goals: prevention of premature death and disability, maintenance and enhancement of quality of life, personal growth and development and a good death.
The ultimate goal of health care is to restore wellness and health to patients. It's a lofty goal with a plethora of elements vital to its success. One of these is showing compassion for patients. Deceptively simple, this element is crucial to quality patient care.
The mean population is computed by adding the population for the beginning of each of the twelve months and for the end of the last month, and dividing the sum by 13.
