Definition of health service in US English:
health service
nounhɛlθ ˈsərvəshelTH ˈsərvəs
A public service providing medical care.
federal health policies should ensure the provision of adequate health services
Example sentencesExamples
- As recently as three years ago some politicians could talk about the NHS as the finest health service in the world.
- It is not the same as hospitals and health services, and care and rehabilitation.
- He should make up his mind whether he wants to be in the public health service to provide a service to St Lucia.
- The poor are best served by a good public health service that is funded by taxation and free at the time of delivery.
- Irish residents can use the card to get treatment in the public health service of any EU country.
- There is widespread misunderstanding or confusion regarding public health services.
- They do this to assure the public that health services meet high standards, and that doctors can be trusted.
- The priority in the initial years was to strengthen the public health services.
- Evidence for the dismal state of the public health services is well documented.
- Why can't this be used to establish a decent public health service that everyone can afford to use?
- Some states' governments have tried to use area health services to deliver care.
- If I were to have an accident, I know I will be well taken care of by our health services.
- So we don't spend a lot of money when you consider the amount of money that's spent on the health service.
- There is a national health service, but private medicine serves a large share of the population.
- Interestingly, amalgamation turned out to be good for public health service in Toronto.
- But even at the height of the communist system there was never a national health service.
- After all it is more economically sound to keep a public health service and it is much better for all concerned.
- The full funding of long term care as an integral part of a universal health service is long overdue.
- She can control, by Order in Council, what a health service can and cannot do.
- There was a major overhaul of the public health service, badly needed after recent cholera epidemics in the South.