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Definition of Health care
1. Noun. Social insurance for the ill and injured.
2. Noun. The preservation of mental and physical health by preventing or treating illness through services offered by the health profession.
Definition of Health care
1. Noun. 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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Medical Definition of Health care
1. Services provided to individuals or communities by agents of the health services or professions for the purpose of promoting, maintaining, monitoring, or restoring health. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Health Care
Literary usage of Health care
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Health Security: The President's Report to the American People by Domestic Policy Council (U. S.) (1993)
"VETERANS health care health care reform will honor the nation's commitment to
continue providing comprehensive health care to its veterans. ..."
2. OECD Economic Surveys: Hungary by OECD Staff (2005)
"Past reforms in health care 1987: Experiment on Homogenous Disease Groups (HDG)
... Universal entitlement to health care eliminated by Parliament and ..."
3. Trends in the Health of Older Americans: U. S., 1994 by R. A. Cohen, J. F. Van Nostrand (1996)
"Data are from the Office of National Health Statistics, health care Financing
... National health care expenditures as a percent of gross domestic product: ..."
4. Health Status of Minorities & Low Income Groups by DIANE Publishing Company, Dept. of Health and Human Services, United States (1991)
"Medicare and Medicaid programs), national health care expenditures were $41.9
... (1) Even after adjusting for inflation, the increase in health care ..."
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