health care

See also: healthcare

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English

Alternative forms

• healthcare

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.

Derived terms

• managed health care

Translations

prevention, treatment, and management of illnesses

• Arabic: رِعَايَة صِحِّيَّة‎ f (riʿāya ṣiḥḥiyya)
• Armenian: առողջապահություն (hy) (aṙołǰapahutʿyun)
• Belarusian: ахо́ва здаро́ўя f (axóva zdaróŭja)
• 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 (zh), 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 pl
• German: Gesundheitsfürsorge f, Gesundheitswesen (de) n, medizinische Versorgung f
• Greek: φροντίδα υγείας f (frontída ygeías)
• Hungarian: egészségügy (hu)
• 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)

• Korean: 의료 (ko) (uiryo)
• Macedonian: здравство n (zdravstvo)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: helsevesen (no) n

• 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

  Roman: 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
• Tagalog: palagamutan
• Ukrainian: охоро́на здоро́в'я f (oxoróna zdoróvʺja)
• Vietnamese: y tế (vi)

Further reading

• health care on Wikipedia.Wikipedia