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healthcare service

healthcare service

1 2.3
A service that helps people stay healthy and get better when sick
  • noun
  • /ˈhɛlθˌkɛr ˈsɜrvɪs/
translation icon : servicio de salud
  • Access to affordable healthcare services is essential for maintaining public health in any society.
  • healthcare service providers
  • utilization of healthcare services
  • access to healthcare services

Education, police, healthcare services, better roads, things like that.

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Examples

  • Managed care programs developed as a means to control costs and utilization of healthcare services.

    Academic text (2000)
  • Home care in the United States is a diverse and rapidly growing healthcare service industry.

    Academic text (1994)
  • Education, police, healthcare services, better roads, things like that.

  • And we have neither the best technology nor the best healthcare services in the world.

    Blog text (18)
  • Discuss a plan for adult living, including healthcare services.

    Academic text (2004)
  • In every country, healthcare services are rationed one way or another.

  • The core products healthcare services provide to a patient are prevention and cure, using procedures with minimal risk.

    Academic text (1996)
  • The issue of access to acute healthcare services also began to compete more directly with long-term care for attention.

    Academic text (1991)
  • Given these sentiments, new strategies for financing and delivering healthcare services may soon be adopted.

    Academic text (1994)
  • For example, Carelink AmeriCorps members provide home-based healthcare services to 200 frail elderly and disabled adults in rural West Georgia.

    Academic text (1998)

Synonyms

health care
vshealthcare service
924 1.8

Services that help people stay well or get better

is one specific service delivered to support health rather than the broad provision
healthcare
vshealthcare service
319 2.3

Medical services that help prevent and treat physical and mental illness

is one specific service aimed at promoting maintaining monitoring or restoring health
care delivery
vshealthcare service
  • Specialized
5 3.4

The way people get health services from places like a hospital or clinic

is the actual single service given to promote or maintain health
health care delivery
vshealthcare service
  • Specialized
4 3.1

The way health services are organized and given to people

is a single service offered to improve or restore individual or community health
healthcare delivery
vshealthcare service
  • Specialized
1 3.9

The way health services are set up and given to people

is a single service focused on promoting or restoring health rather than the whole system

Antonyms

256 3.8

Fail to care for someone or something you should look after

How Specialized

medical care
155 2.5
healthcare service
1 2.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

healthcare + service

The meaning 'a service that provides medical care' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'healthcare' (medical services) with 'service' (assistance/work). This simple noun–noun composition follows a common, compositional pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents can readily infer the MWE meaning.

Etymology

Healthcare service comes from the words health (being well) and care (help from someone). Imagine a nurse or clinic helping a sick person, so it means 'a service that helps people stay healthy or get better'.