health care
English Thesaurus
1. the preservation of mental and physical health by preventing or treating illness through services offered by the health profession (noun.act)
| hypernym | : | aid, attention, care, tending, |
| definition | : | the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something (noun.act) |
2. social insurance for the ill and injured (noun.act)
| hypernym | : | social insurance, |
| definition | : | government provision for unemployed, injured, or aged people; financed by contributions from employers and employees as well as by government revenue (noun.act) |
| hyponym | : | medicare, |
| definition | : | health care for the aged; a federally administered system of health insurance available to persons aged 65 and over (noun.act) |
| hyponym | : | medicaid, |
| definition | : | health care for the needy; a federally and state-funded program (noun.act) |
| hyponym | : | primary health care, |
| definition | : | health care that is provided by a health care professional in the first contact of a patient with the health care system (noun.act) |
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