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health_care

health care

See also: healthcare

English

Alternative forms

healthcare

Noun

health care ‎(uncountable)

The prevention, treatment, and management of illness or the preservation of mental and physical well-being through the services offered by the medical, nursing, and allied health professions.
I think free healthcare should also cover nearsightedness.

Derived terms

managed health care

Translations

prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses

Armenian: առողջապահություն (hy) ‎(aṙołǰapahutʿyun)
Belarusian: ахова здароўя ‎(axova zdaroŭja)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 衛生保健, 卫生保健 ‎(wèishēng bǎojiàn), 醫療保健 (zh), 医疗保健 (zh) ‎(yīliáo bǎojiàn), 醫療 (zh), 医疗 (zh) ‎(yīliáo)
Czech: zdravotnictví n
Dutch: gezondheidszorg (nl) c
Finnish: terveydenhoito, terveydenhuolto, sairaanhoito (fi)
French: soins de santé pl
German: ^{(please verify)}Gesundheitsfürsorge f, Gesundheitswesen (de) n, ^{(please verify)}medizinische Versorgung f
Greek: φροντίδα υγείας f ‎(frontída ygeías)
Hungarian: egészségügy
Ido: sanesoflego

Italian: sanità (it) f, assistenza sanitaria f, servizio sanitario m
Japanese: 医療 (ja) ‎(いりょう, iryō), ヘルスケア ‎(herusukea)
Macedonian: здравство n ‎(zdrávstvo)
Portuguese: assistência médica f
Romanian: îngrijirea sănătății (defined form)
Russian: здравоохране́ние (ru) n ‎(zdravooxranénije)
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: здравство n, здравствена заштита f

Roman: zdravstvo (sh) n, zdravstvena zaštita f
Slovene: zdrávstvo n
Spanish: asistencia sanitaria
Swedish: sjukvård (sv) n, hälsovård n
Tagalog: palagamutan

External links

health care on Wikipedia.Wikipedia