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Spanish Word of the Day Archive
Saturday October 13, 2007
sanidad, noun:
public health
Though ultimately coming from the same root as English ‘sanity’, sanidad has a very different meaning. It refers to different aspects of health.
¿Qué ofrecemos para resolver problemas que le importan a la gente, como la educación, la sanidad, el desempleo?
What can we offer to solve the problems that people care about, such as education, health, unemployment?
Sanidad is very often used to talk about issues of public health:
El Ministerio de sanidad
The Health Ministry
And very often the Ministry is referred to just by the single word Sanidad, with a capital letter:
Cada asociación designará dos personas encargadas de informar a Sanidad
Each association will designate two people whose responsibility is to inform the Ministry of Health.
The adjective relating to sanidad is sanitario, which is we look at in another Spanish Word of the Day.
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