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Sanitation vs Health - What's the difference?

sanitation | health |

As nouns the difference between sanitation and health

is that sanitation is the hygienic disposal or recycling of waste while health is the state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness.

sanitation

Noun

(en noun)
  • The hygienic disposal or recycling of waste.
  • The policy and practice of protecting health through hygienic measures.
  • Hypernyms

    * (policy and practice) public health

    See also

    * sewage * sewage treatment * microorganisms * disease * disinfection

    health

    English

    (wikipedia health)

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The state of being free from physical or psychological disease, illness, or malfunction; wellness.
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  • A state of well-being or balance, often physical but sometimes also mental and social; the overall level of function of an organism from the cellular (micro) level to the social (macro) level.
  • Physical condition.
  • (obsolete) Cure, remedy.
  • *, Bk.XVII, Ch.XI:
  • *:And she myght have a dysshfulle of bloode of a maydyn and a clene virgyne in wylle and in worke, and a kynges doughter, that bloode sholde be her helth , for to anoynte her withall.
  • (countable) A toast to prosperity.
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  • Derived terms

    * healthiness * healthy * healthcare * bill of health * health food * health worker

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