health care

health care
noun
Health care is used before these nouns: ↑benefit, ↑cost, ↑coverage, ↑delivery, ↑expenditure, ↑expense, ↑facility, ↑industry, ↑insurance, ↑need, ↑personnel, ↑plan, ↑premium, ↑profession, ↑professional, ↑programme, ↑reform, ↑sector, ↑service, ↑system, ↑worker

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  • health care — health ,care noun uncount ** the services that take care of people s health: Homeless people need better access to health care. ╾ health|care [ helθ,ker ] adjective …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • health care — n [U] the service that is responsible for looking after the health of all the people in a country or an area ▪ The government has promised wide ranging health care for all. ▪ health care workers …   Dictionary of contemporary English

  • health-care — adj, always used before a noun health care workers • • • Main Entry: ↑health care …   Useful english dictionary

  • health care — n the maintaining and restoration of health by the treatment and prevention of disease esp. by trained and licensed professionals (as in medicine, dentistry, clinical psychology, and public health) health care adj …   Medical dictionary

  • health care — health′ care or health′care n. med bus any field or enterprise concerned with supplying services, equipment, information, etc., for the maintenance or restoration of health • Etymology: 1940–45 …   From formal English to slang

  • health care — noun coverage, health coverage, health insurance, health protection, medical coverage, medical insurance, medical plan, plan Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • Health care — For The Office television show episode, see Health Care (The Office). Health care (or healthcare) is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in humans. Health care is… …   Wikipedia

  • Health care —    Since 1991, the health care system in the Russian Federation has been in transition from a hierarchal, centrally controlled system of medical provision, wholly financed from Soviet government revenues, to a more decentralized, diverse, and… …   Historical Dictionary of the Russian Federation

  • health care —    Spain has had a comprehensive health service only since 1986, when the PSOE government introduced the General Health Law. Previously, cover was provided under a compulsory health insurance introduced by the Franco regime in 1942, which by 1975 …   Encyclopedia of contemporary Spanish culture

  • health care — noun 1. social insurance for the ill and injured • Hypernyms: ↑social insurance • Hyponyms: ↑Medicare, ↑Medicaid, ↑primary health care 2. the preservation of mental and physical health by preventing or treating illness through services offered by …   Useful english dictionary

  • health care */*/ — UK / US noun [uncountable] the services that look after people s health Homeless people need better access to health care. Derived word: healthcare UK [ˈhelθˌkeə(r)] / US [ˈhelθˌker] adjective …   English dictionary

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