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Insights 4 Glossary: Society and healthcare

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  • withdrawing from, for example, society
    alienation
  • the opposite of an emigrant
    immigrant
  • a physical, mental, cognitive, or developmental condition that impairs or limits a person's ability to engage in certain tasks
    disability
  • the opposite of public sector
    private sector
  • a leave of absence from a job for a mother to care for a new baby
    maternity leave
  • the opposite of majority
    minority
  • 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 grant by a government to a private person or company
    subsidy
  • time spent in hospital
    hospital stay
  • providing economic security and social welfare for the individual through government programs maintained by money from public taxation
    social security
  • a branch of medicine trying to ward off disease
    preventive care
  • the state of being extremely poor
    poverty
  • a leave of absence from a job for a father to care for a new baby
    paternity leave
  • when you cannot go to work due to illness
    sick leave
  • the process of restoring a person to their previous state due to, for example, drug addiction or an accident
    rehabilitation
  • an allowance paid to those out of work
    unemployment benefit
  • a grant by the government to help with the rent
    housing benefit
  • health care one gets through their place of employment
    occupational health care
  • person looking for refuge in a foreign country
    asylum seeker
  • someone fleeing their country because their life is in danger
    refugee
  • the opposite of dicrimination
    equality
  • a member of a state or nation a native or naturalized member of a state or nation
    citizen