health care

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• healthcare

Noun

health care (uncountable)

1. The prevention, treatment, and management of illness and the preservation of mental and physical well-being through the services offered by the medical, nursing, and allied health professions.

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) Croatian: zdravstvo (hr) n. Czech: zdravotnictví (cs) n. Dutch: gezondheidszorg (nl) c. Finnish: terveydenhoito, terveydenhuolto, sairaanhoito German: Gesundheitsfürsorge f., Gesundheitswesen n., medizinische Versorgung f. Hungarian: egészségügy (hu)

Ido: sanesoflego (io) Japanese: 医療 (ja) Macedonian: здравство (mk) (zdrávstvo) n. Portuguese: seguro-saúde (pt) m. Romanian: îngrijirea sănătății (ro) (defined form) Russian: здравоохранение (ru) (zdravooxranénije) n. Serbian: zdravstvo (sr) Slovene: zdrávstvo (sl) n. Swedish: sjukvård (sv) n., hälsovård (sv) n.