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mental-health care

mental-health care is the alternative form of mental health care.

Meaning of mental health care

Noun

mental health care (uncountable)

  1. The prevention, treatment, and management of mental illness.
    • Yet, with the inevitable stress of their hard and monotonous lives, the separation of families as the husbands leave to find work, the tendency of some to escape with drink, and the decline in supportive traditions, the need for mental health care is very real.2005, Janet Ganguli, “Mental Health”, in Under an Indian Sky: Ten Years in a Bihar Village, New Delhi: Penguin Books India, →ISBN, part II (The Struggle for Health), page 130

Questions about mental-health care

What is mental-health care the alternative form of?
Mental-health care is the alternative form of mental health care.

Words near mental-health care in the dictionary

  1. mental protuberances
  2. mental reservation
  3. mental reservations
  4. mental retardation
  5. mental-disordered
  6. mental-health care
  7. mentalcel
  8. mentalcels
  9. mentales
  10. mentalese
  11. mentaleses

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