Curative care

{{Short description|Healthcare given to cure a medical condition}} {{other uses|Curative (disambiguation)}} '''Curative care''' or '''curative medicine''' is the [[health care]] given for [[medical condition]]s where a [[cure]] is considered achievable, or even possibly so, and directed to this end.<ref name="Heaver1995">{{cite book|author=Richard Heaver|title=Managing Primary Health Care: Implications of the Health Transition|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mhvjpUwZZpwC&pg=PR15|accessdate=27 December 2020|date=1 January 1995|publisher=World Bank Publications|isbn=978-0-8213-3175-0|pages=14–15}}</ref> Curative care differs from [[preventive care]], which aims at preventing the appearance of diseases through [[pharmaceutical]]s and such techniques as [[immunization]], [[exercise]], proper eating habits and other [[life style (sociology)|life style]] issues, and from [[palliative care]], which concentrates on reducing the severity of [[symptom]]s, such as [[pain]].<ref name="CulyerNewhouse2000">{{cite book|author1=A J. Culyer|author2=J.P. Newhouse|author3=Mark V. Pauly|author4=Thomas G. McGuire|author5=Pedro Pita Barros|title=Handbook of Health Economics|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FQCgxj_Ho_YC&pg=PA1684|accessdate=27 December 2020|date=2 August 2000|publisher=Elsevier|isbn=978-0-444-50471-5|pages=1684–}}</ref>

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