Insights 4 Glossary: Society and healthcare | Baamboozle - Baamboozle

a physical, mental, cognitive, or developmental condition that impairs or limits a person's ability to engage in certain tasks

disability

a grant by the government to help with the rent

housing benefit

someone fleeing their country because their life is in danger

refugee

time spent in hospital

hospital stay

person looking for refuge in a foreign country

asylum seeker

a grant by a government to a private person or company

subsidy

health care one gets through their place of employment

occupational health care

withdrawing from, for example, society

alienation

the opposite of dicrimination

equality

the process of restoring a person to their previous state due to, for example, drug addiction or an accident

rehabilitation

the state of being extremely poor

poverty

a leave of absence from a job for a mother to care for a new baby

maternity leave

the opposite of public sector

private sector

the opposite of majority

minority

the opposite of an emigrant

immigrant

providing economic security and social welfare for the individual through government programs maintained by money from public taxation

social security

an allowance paid to those out of work

unemployment benefit

when you cannot go to work due to illness

sick leave

a branch of medicine trying to ward off disease

preventive care

a member of a state or nation a native or naturalized member of a state or nation

citizen

the probable number of years remaining in the life of an individual or class of persons determined statistically, affected by such factors as genes, physical condition, nutrition, and occupation.

life expectancy

a leave of absence from a job for a father to care for a new baby

paternity leave