Editing Feldsher (section)

{{Short description|Health care professional}}
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[[File:Ambulanz zu Fröschweiler August 1870 - deutscher Feldscher.jpg|thumb|German Feldscher in the [[Franco-Prussian War]] 1870]]
[[File:Amputation 1540.jpg|thumb|A feldsher performing an amputation. Engraving from 1540]]

A '''feldsher''' ({{langx|de|link=no|Feldscher}}, {{langx|pl|Felczer}}, {{langx|cs|Felčar}}, {{Langx|hu|Felcser}}, {{langx|ru|link=no|фельдшер}}, {{langx|sv|Fältskär}}, {{Langx|fi|Välskäri}}) is a [[health care professional]] who provides various medical services limited to emergency treatment and ambulance practice.<ref name="WHOrg"/> As such, a feldsher is one kind of [[mid-level practitioner|mid-level medical practitioner]]. 

In Russia, [[Ukraine]] and in other countries of the former [[Soviet Union]], feldshers provide primary-, obstetric- and surgical-care services in many rural medical centres and clinics across Russia,<ref>[http://www.ccjm.org/content/70/11/937.full.pdf Farmer R et al., "The Russian Health Care System Today. ''Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine'', 2003; 70(11) (PDF)]</ref> [[Armenia]],<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20110629051421/http://www.who.int/nha/country/arm/nha2006.pdf World Health Organization. ''National Health Accounts of the Republic of Armenia 2006''. Yerevan, 2007 -  (PDF)]</ref> [[Kazakhstan]],<ref name="Kazak">{{Cite web |url=http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/95115/E67903.pdf |title=European Observatory on Health Care Systems: ''Health Care Systems in Transition: Kazakhstan''. Copenhagen, 1999 (PDF) |access-date=2011-03-15 |archive-date=2015-09-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924014035/http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0003/95115/E67903.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[Kyrgyzstan]],<ref>[https://www.who.int/surgery/Report_Kyrgyzstan_Facilitators_workshop.pdf World Health Organization and Ministry of Health, Kyrgyzstan. ''Integrated Management on Emergency and Essential Surgical Care (IMEESC)''. Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, 2005 (PDF)]</ref> [[Mongolia]]<ref>{{Cite book|title=Mongolia health system review|date=2013|publisher=World Health Organization, on behalf of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies|others=T︠S︡olmongėrėl, T︠S︡. (T︠S︡ilaazhavyn), Kwon, Soonman., Richardson, Erica., Asia Pacific Observatory on Health Systems and Policies.|isbn=9789290616092|location=Copenhagen, Denmark|oclc=849860631}}</ref> and Uzbekistan.

Similar types of mid-level practitioners are known by different titles in different countries, including [[advanced practitioner]] (United Kingdom), [[clinical associates|clinical associate]]/[[clinical officer]] (in parts of [[sub-Saharan Africa]]), [[Community_health_worker#Community_Health_Officer_(CHO)|community health officer]] (India), [[medical assistant]] (United States), [[nurse practitioner]] (Australia, Canada and US), and [[physician assistant]] (Canada and US). The [[International Standard Classification of Occupations]], 2008 revision, collectively groups such workers under the category [[paramedic|paramedical practitioners]].<ref name="WHOrg">
{{cite journal 
|author= World Health Organization 
|title= Occupation group: Paramedical practitioners. Feldsher (Examples of occupations) 
|journal= Classifying Health Workers |location= Geneva |year= 2010 
|at= page 4/14 in PDF |quote= Ambulance workers. ISCO code: 2240. 
|url=https://www.who.int/hrh/statistics/Health_workers_classification.pdf
}}
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