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The Battle of "Health" in America Today

Posted by Admin Wednesday, February 22, 2012

Introduction
Or is it "health care" or "health care"? The fight for the right use of the term "health" has difficulty in America for many years. I was in the training of health professionals and students involved here in New York and Long Iceland for over 27 years. For all this time, I saw the term "health care" is grammatically by all messed up - even by the largest publishing books, publishers of dictionaries, newspapers and magazine publishers, medical institutions and government agencies in the United States.


Who is to blame for the confusion?
But these same publishers and institutions are to blame for the continuing confusion. Some of them with a mandate to "health" as one word, all situations grammar. And some of them still insist on "health" and "health", according to the specific topic of discussion. To make matters worse, some publications also happen through the concept and how it is used - all in the same publication. Here with us, we deliberately opted to "health care" to use as a word, but we can certainly understand both sides of the argument. The new compound words always seem difficult to use for some time. But ultimately we have to accept and comply with all of this change. Most of us in America have already agreed to change the use of "health care" as a word. Now it's time for some last bastions to accept this change and start with "health care" as one word.


Why do we use health care
Why did my medical training and publishing company has embraced "health" as one word? Well, "Health Care" It is technically possible to use two words when the first term has arrived, but rational in any practical sense, it was a word, the difference was pretty -. And subtly, of course, to keep pace. It was not long, began the writers and publishers as well as the area to decline further confusion, turning what was ever a purely semantic nuance in every color. In my company we have a fundamental belief that we have an obligation to our students and readers everything we teach and publish in order to read and to do so easily understandable as possible. If this involves the use of a word against two, or with a hyphen or unpopular grammatically wrong with a word, or splitting an infinitive, or by using additional commas, then we will. Our first and most important duty is to provide our students and readers, not editors or grammar linguists.


Development and improvement of our language
But we can blame our language for simplicity and evolution? It is also possible that the American society, in its infinite wisdom, semantics, decided to not cut their hair - words or phrases - where it is not necessary to do so. This is not only the inevitable evolution of our language. It is actually a good idea to change.


"Health" and "health care" defined
We often see the word or the phrase "health care" and "health", but do not know if they are equal, many people use each say the same thing -. But they are fundamentally different at first. In its simplest definition, "health care" is a service by trained professionals, patients are offered. as a single word, "health" of the system in which professionals work and in which patients receive care meant. Healthcare is a word refers to a system of medical care (two words). So America is a "health system" has. In the UK, he called the National Health Service.


We can easily see why these definitions can be confusing and are co-melee. But now, most of us accept that the term "health" is now a generic reference to any aspect of medical care - regardless of the topic. Whether there are used to discuss the diagnosis or treatment of diseases, or how the diagnosis or treatment is delivered, or how they are paid, is now "health" - a word.


Completion
Health care will eventually widely accepted as a word, when linguists and editors want to or not. This assumption was already in British English, where "health care" is used more frequently occurred. Some U.S. and Canadian publications continue to resist change and always attracts "health care" to "health". Australian English is somewhere in between. In any case, it is inevitable that "health care" is finally accepted as a word.

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