Definitions for health care
health care

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. health carenoun

   social insurance for the ill and injured

2. healthcare, health carenoun

   the preservation of mental and physical health by preventing or treating illness through services offered by the health profession

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1. health carenoun

   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.

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1. Health care

   Health care or healthcare is the improvement of health via the prevention, diagnosis, treatment, amelioration or cure of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in people. Health care is delivered by health professionals and allied health fields. Medicine, dentistry, pharmacy, midwifery, nursing, optometry, audiology, psychology, occupational therapy, physical therapy, athletic training, and other health professions all constitute health care. It includes work done in providing primary care, secondary care, and tertiary care, as well as in public health. Access to health care may vary across countries, communities, and individuals, influenced by social and economic conditions as well as health policies. Providing health care services means "the timely use of personal health services to achieve the best possible health outcomes". Factors to consider in terms of health care access include financial limitations (such as insurance coverage), geographical and logistical barriers (such as additional transportation costs and the possibility to take paid time off work to use such services), sociocultural expectations, and personal limitations (lack of ability to communicate with health care providers, poor health literacy, low income). Limitations to health care services affects negatively the use of medical services, the efficacy of treatments, and overall outcome (well-being, mortality rates). Health systems are organizations established to meet the health needs of targeted populations. According to the World Health Organization (WHO), a well-functioning health care system requires a financing mechanism, a well-trained and adequately paid workforce, reliable information on which to base decisions and policies, and well-maintained health facilities to deliver quality medicines and technologies. An efficient health care system can contribute to a significant part of a country's economy, development, and industrialization. Health care is conventionally regarded as an important determinant in promoting the general physical and mental health and well-being of people around the world. An example of this was the worldwide eradication of smallpox in 1980, declared by the WHO as the first disease in human history to be eliminated by deliberate health care interventions.

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1. health care

   Health care refers to the organized provision of medical services to individuals or communities to maintain, improve, or manage their physical and mental health. This includes prevention, diagnosis, treatment, recovery, or cure of diseases, illnesses, injuries, and other physical and mental impairments. Health care involves services offered by various health professionals including doctors, nurses, pharmacists, therapists, and other allied health practitioners. It can be delivered through primary, secondary, or tertiary care within public health or private settings.

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1. Health care

   Health care is the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of disease, illness, injury, and other physical and mental impairments in humans. Health care is delivered by practitioners in medicine, optometry, dentistry, nursing, pharmacy, allied health, and other care providers. It refers to the work done in providing primary care, secondary care and tertiary care, as well as in public health. Access to health care varies across countries, groups and individuals, largely influenced by social and economic conditions as well as the health policies in place. Countries and jurisdictions have different policies and plans in relation to the personal and population-based health care goals within their societies. Health care systems are organizations established to meet the health needs of target populations. Their exact configuration varies from country to country. In some countries and jurisdictions, health care planning is distributed among market participants, whereas in others planning is made more centrally among governments or other coordinating bodies. In all cases, according to the World Health Organization, a well-functioning health care system requires a robust financing mechanism; a well-trained and adequately-paid workforce; reliable information on which to base decisions and policies; and well maintained facilities and logistics to deliver quality medicines and technologies.

Matched Categories

1. • Care
   • Social Insurance

How to pronounce health care?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say health care in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of health care in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of health care in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of health care in a Sentence

1. United Mine Workers of America:

   If successful, Walter Energy will force many retirees into making life or death decisions about getting needed health care or buying food, nobody gave them their health care and pension benefits - they earned them.

2. The FDA:

   Biosimilars will provide access to important therapies for patients who need them, patients and the health care community can be confident that biosimilar products approved by the FDA meet the agency's rigorous safety, efficacy and quality standards.

3. Van Kerkhove:

   We need to be clear, the world is facing a significant shortage of PPE for our frontline workers -- including masks and gloves and gowns and face shields -- and protecting our health care workers must be the top priority for use of this PPE.

4. Matthew Vadum:

   In the President Obama era, the entertainment industry has been openly complicit in administration plans to promote so-called health care reform, for example, gleefully parachuting pro-Obamacare propaganda into TV shows, as the president tries to unilaterally crack down on firearms, it's not like he needs to put a gun to Hollywood heads.Zombie-like, they'll repeat any words he stuffs into their mouths.

5. President Biden:

   Look, this bill is far from perfect, it’s a compromise, but my message to Congress is this: This is the strongest bill you can pass to lower inflation, cut the deficit, reduce health care costs, tackle the climate crisis, and promote energy security.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=health care
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Health_Care
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_Care
4. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
5. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=health care