B2 · Upper Intermediate
Healthcare System
Understand common healthcare pathways and ask about referrals, treatment plans, payment and support in Danish.
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- Words & phrases
- 37
- Lessons
- 2
- Conversations
- 1
- Readings
- 1
A preview of what you’ll master
Words you’ll make your own.
Explore every meaning in this unit. Learn how to say it in Danish when you start.
- healthcare system
- general practitioner
- specialist doctor
- epidemic
- prevention
- co-payment
- waiting time
- to treat
- to operate
- to refer
- treatment guarantee
- diagnostic assessment (work-up)
- emergency department
- on-call doctor (out-of-hours doctor)
- patient right
- medicine subsidy (reimbursement)
- overcrowding (of hospital beds)
- staff shortage
- home care
- a close relative or other person close to someone
- duty of confidentiality
- consent
- malpractice (incorrect treatment)
- public health
- average life expectancy
- course of treatment
- to relieve (alleviate)
- to relieve the pressure on
- to assess eligibility for care
- life-threatening
- polio
- immunity
- an outpatient
- an over-the-counter drug
- triage
- universal coverage
- a vaginal birth
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Your lessons, step by step.
- Lesson 1
The Healthcare System
- Lesson 2
Navigating Danish Healthcare
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