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health policy
The area of politics that deals with all issues related to the healthcare system, medical care for the population, and public health.
Die Reform der Pflegeversicherung ist ein zentrales Thema der aktuellen Gesundheitspolitik.
The reform of long-term care insurance is a central issue in current health policy.
The word is made up of three parts: 'die Gesundheit' (health), the linking -s, and 'die Politik' (politics/policy). So it literally describes the area of policy that deals with health.
Die Gesundheitspolitik steht vor großen Herausforderungen.
Health policy is facing major challenges.
'Gesundheitspolitik' (health policy) follows a common pattern in German in which a topic is combined with '-politik' (policy). Other examples are 'Umweltpolitik' (environmental policy), 'Wirtschaftspolitik' (economic policy), or 'Familienpolitik' (family policy).
Er interessiert sich sehr für die aktuelle Umweltpolitik.
He is very interested in current environmental policy.
In connection with 'Gesundheitspolitik' (health policy), verbs that describe political processes are often used. Typical phrases are 'Gesundheitspolitik gestalten' (to shape health policy), 'über Gesundheitspolitik diskutieren' (to discuss health policy), or 'die Gesundheitspolitik kritisieren' (to criticize health policy).
Die Opposition kritisiert die Gesundheitspolitik der Regierung scharf.
The opposition sharply criticizes the government's health policy.
This word belongs to formal language and is used mainly in the news, in politics, and in specialist texts. It occurs less often in everyday colloquial speech.
Der Artikel analysiert die deutsche Gesundheitspolitik der letzten zehn Jahre.
The article analyzes German health policy over the last ten years.
healthcare system
'Gesundheitswesen' and 'Gesundheitspolitik' are closely connected, but they do not mean the same thing. 'Gesundheitswesen' is the whole system around health, so, for example, doctors, hospitals, health insurance providers, and healthcare. 'Gesundheitspolitik' means the political decisions and rules for this system. Learners may confuse the words because both often appear in news reports or discussions about medicine. Put simply: the healthcare system is the system; health policy shapes and directs this system.
Morgen diskutiert der Bundestag über neue Ziele in der Gesundheitspolitik.
Tomorrow, the Bundestag will discuss new goals in health policy.
Lena arbeitet seit diesem Jahr im Gesundheitswesen.
Lena has been working in the healthcare system since this year.