Health sciences – those sciences that focus on health, or health care, as core parts of their subject matter. Health sciences relate to multiple academic disciplines, including STEM disciplines and emerging patient safety disciplines (such as social care research).A Health Science degree is the award granted to graduates of this science-focused program. It is typically offered at the bachelor’s degree level. Students completing a Health Science degree can kick off careers in either a research or care application capacity. Research capacities are typically lab-based, investigative occupations that require someone to constantly push the envelope and develop new medial processes – such as oncology or cancer research. Application capacities, on the other hand, are hands-on professions that require direct work with patients or tests that patients need to recover their health.