healthcareとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

healthcare (usually uncountable, 複数形 healthcares)

1. Alternative spelling of health care
   • 1985, William J. Winston, “Mission and Future Applications of the Proceedings”, in Professional Practice in Health Care Marketing: Proceedings of the American College of Healthcare Marketing:

     There are many groups trying to claim healthcare marketing as part of their activity.

   • 1990, Scott Alan Stewart, Videodiscs in Healthcare: A Guide to the Industry:

     All in all, a terrific burden is being placed on employers, especially in healthcare, as legislation regulating safety in the workplace proliferates, and it appears that OSHA is beginning to take training and other violations seriously as well.

   • 2011, Bruce S. Jansson, Improving Healthcare through Advocacy‎^[1], John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 3:

     Healthcare patients or consumers often need help in addressing these seven problems.

名詞

health care (uncountable)

1. The prevention, treatment, and management of illness or the preservation of mental and physical well-being through the services offered by the medical, nursing, and allied health professions.

   I think free health care should also cover nearsightedness.

   • 2010 August 4, Leonard S. Rubenstein, JD; Stephen N. Xenakis, MD, “The Ethics of Enhanced Interrogations and Torture: A Reappraisal of the Argument”, in JAMA‎^[1], volume 304, number 5, American Medical Association, →DOI, pages 569–570:

     In 2009, the Obama Administration released guidelines on enhanced interrogation written in 2003 and 2004 by the CIA Office of Medical Services. ^{(OMS).1-3(appendix F)} The OMS guidelines, even in redacted form, and opinions from the US Department of Justice's (DOJ’s) Office of Legal Counsel show that CIA physicians, psychologists, and other health care personnel had important roles in enhanced interrogation.

下位語

• allied health
• dentistry
• medicine
• nursing
• veterinary medicine

派生語

• hallway health care
• managed health care

Further reading

• health care on Wikipedia.