The Associated Press Stylebook, the basic journalism guide for how news organizations report and write stories, made a splash last week by declaring that “healthcare” should be written as one word instead of two. The changes, announced at the annual conference ACES: The Society for Editing, were prompted by changes in usage and longstanding calls for change.
STAT closely follows AP’s style and has used “healthcare” since its founding in 2015. We now have to decide whether to adopt this new guideline, but newsrooms are divided.
We want to hear from our readers, especially those in the healthcare industry, about this polarizing question. Is it “health care” or “health care”? Let us know your thoughts in the form below. It may be included in a future summary.
Is it health care or health care?
The AP Stylebook recently made an important decision to change its guidance to write healthcare as one word instead of two. Do you think this word should be written as health care or health care?
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