health care

See also: healthcare

English

Alternative forms

• healthcare, health-care

Pronunciation

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

health care (uncountable)

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 health care should also cover nearsightedness.

   • 2010 August 4, Leonard S. Rubenstein, JD; Stephen N. Xenakis, MD, “The Ethics of Enhanced Interrogations and Torture: A Reappraisal of the Argument”, in JAMA‎^[1], volume 304, number 5, American Medical Association, →DOI, pages 569–570:

     In 2009, the Obama Administration released guidelines on enhanced interrogation written in 2003 and 2004 by the CIA Office of Medical Services. ^{(OMS).1-3(appendix F)} The OMS guidelines, even in redacted form, and opinions from the US Department of Justice's (DOJ’s) Office of Legal Counsel show that CIA physicians, psychologists, and other health care personnel had important roles in enhanced interrogation.

Hyponyms

• allied health
• dentistry
• medicine
• nursing
• optometry
• veterinary medicine

Derived terms

• Canadian healthcare
• hallway health care
• managed health care

Translations

prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses

• Arabic: رِعَايَة صِحِّيَّة f (riʕāya ṣiḥḥiyya)
• Armenian: առողջապահություն (hy) (aṙoġǰapahutʻyun)
• Belarusian: ахо́ва здаро́ўя f (axóva zdarówja)
• Bulgarian: здравеопазване (bg) n (zdraveopazvane)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 衛生保健 / 卫生保健 (wèishēng bǎojiàn), 醫療保健 / 医疗保健 (yīliáo bǎojiàn), 醫療 / 医疗 (zh) (yīliáo)

• Czech: zdravotnictví (cs) n
• Danish: sundhedsvæsen n
• Dutch: gezondheidszorg (nl) c
• Estonian: tervishoid
• Finnish: terveydenhoito (fi), terveydenhuolto (fi), sairaanhoito (fi)
• French: soins de santé m pl
• German: Gesundheitsfürsorge f, Gesundheitswesen (de) n, medizinische Versorgung f
• Greek: φροντίδα υγείας f (frontída ygeías)
• Hindi: स्वास्थ्य सेवा f (svāsthya sevā)
• Hungarian: egészségügy (hu), egészségügyi ellátás, betegellátás (hu), (public) közegészségügy (hu)
• Ido: sanesoflego
• Indonesian: layanan kesehatan
• Italian: sanità (it) f, assistenza sanitaria f, servizio sanitario m
• Japanese: 医療 (ja) (いりょう, iryō), ヘルスケア (ja) (herusukea)
• Korean: 의료(醫療) (ko) (uiryo)
• Macedonian: здравство (mk) n (zdravstvo)
• Malay: penjagaan kesihatan
• Burmese: ကျန်းမာရေးစောင့်ရှောက်ခြင်း (kyan:mare:caung.hraukhkrang:)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: helseomsorg m or f, helsevesen (no) n

  Nynorsk: helseomsorg f

• Polish: opieka zdrowotna (pl) f
• Portuguese: assistência médica f
• Romanian: îngrijirea sănătății (defined form)
• Russian: здравоохране́ние (ru) n (zdravooxranénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: здравство n, здравствена заштита f

  Latin: zdravstvo (sh) n, zdravstvena zaštita f

• Slovak: zdravotníctvo n
• Slovene: zdrávstvo n
• Spanish: asistencia sanitaria, atención médica f
• Swedish: sjukvård (sv) n, hälsovård (sv) n, vård (sv)
• Tagalog: palagamutan
• Turkish:

  Ottoman Turkish: صحیه (sıhhıye)

• Ukrainian: охоро́на здоро́в'я f (oxoróna zdoróvʺja)
• Vietnamese: y tế (vi) (醫濟)
• Yiddish: געזונט־אַסיגנאַציע f (gezunt-asignatsye)

Further reading

• health care on Wikipedia.Wikipedia