health care

English

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Alternative forms

• healthcare

Etymology

From health +‎ care.

Noun

health care (plural health cares)

1. 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 myopia.

Translations

prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses

• Armenian: առողջապահություն (hy) (aṙołǰapahutʿyun)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 衛生保健 (cmn), 卫生保健 (cmn) (wèishēng bǎojiàn)

• Czech: zdravotnictví (cs) n
• Dutch: gezondheidszorg (nl) c
• Finnish: terveydenhoito (fi), terveydenhuolto (fi), sairaanhoito (fi)
• German: Gesundheitsfürsorge (de) f, Gesundheitswesen (de) n, medizinische Versorgung f
• Hungarian: egészségügy (hu)
• Ido: sanesoflego (io)
• Japanese: 医療 (ja) (いりょう, iryō), ヘルスケア (ja) (herusukea)

• Macedonian: здравство (mk) (zdrávstvo) n
• Portuguese: seguro-saúde (pt) m
• Romanian: îngrijirea sănătății (ro) (defined form)
• Russian: здравоохранение (ru) (zdravooxranénije) n
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: здравство (sh) n

  Roman: zdravstvo (sh) n

• Slovene: zdrávstvo (sl) n
• Swedish: sjukvård (sv) n, hälsovård (sv) n