zdravstvenog

Zdravstvenog is a form of the Slavic adjective zdravstveni, meaning health-related or medical. It is used in several South Slavic languages, including Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, and Slovenian, to indicate a relation to health or health care. The base adjective zdravstveni is declined in the language, and zdravstenog is its genitive singular form used with masculine or neuter nouns.

In practice, zdravstenog appears most often in phrases where a noun is in the genitive case, such as discussions of public policy, finance, or administration. Examples include financiranje zdravstvenog sistema (funding of the health system), politika zdravstvenog osiguranja (policy of health insurance), and financijski utjecaj zdravstvenog sektora (financial impact on the health sector). In other contexts, the neuter form zdravstveno may modify neuter nouns, as in zdravstveno osiguranje, meaning health insurance.

Etymology and usage notes: the term is derived from zdrav- meaning healthy, with a suffix that forms adjectives denoting relation or pertinence. It functions as a productive combining form for health-related topics and is widely used in technical and policy language, as well as in everyday speech when describing aspects of health care, public health, and related institutions.

See also: health care, health system, public health, health insurance, medical services.