health care (redirected from Veterans' Rights)

health care also health·care (hlthkâr)

n.

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

adj. also health-care (hlthkâr)

Of or relating to health care: the health care industry.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	health care - social insurance for the ill and injured social insurance - government provision for unemployed, injured, or aged people; financed by contributions from employers and employees as well as by government revenue Medicare - health care for the aged; a federally administered system of health insurance available to persons aged 65 and over Medicaid - health care for the needy; a federally and state-funded program primary health care - health care that is provided by a health care professional in the first contact of a patient with the health care system
	2.	health care - the preservation of mental and physical health by preventing or treating illness through services offered by the health profession healthcare care, tending, attention, aid - the work of providing treatment for or attending to someone or something; "no medical care was required"; "the old car needs constant attention"

Translations

health care n → assistenza sanitaria