health service

English

Noun

health service (plural health services)

1. a public (or private) service providing health care to the general public.

Derived terms

• Public Health Service

Translations

service providing health care

• Finnish: terveyspalvelu, terveystoimi
• Irish: seirbhís sláintíochta f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmal: helsevesen (no) n, helsetjeneste

  Nynorsk: helsevesen n, helsetenest f, helseteneste f

• Polish: służba zdrowia (pl) f

References

• “health-service”, in Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, 1999–present.
• “health service”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.