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mental healthcare

mental healthcare 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 healthcare

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

Words near mental healthcare in the dictionary

  1. mental gymnasts
  2. mental health
  3. mental health care
  4. mental health day
  5. mental health days
  6. mental healthcare
  7. mental hospital
  8. mental hospitals
  9. mental hotel
  10. mental hotels
  11. mental hygiene

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Adapted from Wiktionary: mental healthcare (page history and authors); mental health care (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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