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1Health Resources and Services Administration — The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an agency within the United States Department of Health and Human Services, is the primary Federal agency for improving access to health care services for people who are uninsured, isolated …
2Health Resources and Services Administration — A federal agency responsible for managing national data banks, such as the National Practitioner Data Bank, as well as other health care programs …
3Health disparities — (also called healthcare inequality in some countries) refer to gaps in the quality of health and health care across racial (see Race and health), ethnic, and socioeconomic groups. [U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Healthy… …
4Health policy analysis — is the process of assessing and choosing among spending and resource alternatives that affect the health care system, public health system, or the health of the general public. Health policy analysis involves several steps: identifying or framing …
5Health information technology — Introduction= Health information technology (HIT) provides the umbrella framework to describe the comprehensive management of health information and its secure exchange between consumers, providers, government and quality entities, and insurers.… …
6Health and Human Services — The United States government s principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially for those who are least able to help themselves. Also known as DHHS and HHS. The U.S. Department of… …
7Health and social welfare in Communist Czechoslovakia — Characteristics In the 1980s, Czechoslovakia had a comprehensive and universal system of social security under which everyone was entitled to free medical care and medicine, in theory at least. National health planning emphasized preventive… …
8Health care provider — A health care provider is an individual or an institution that provides preventive, curative, promotional or rehabilitative health care services in a systematic way to individuals, families or communities. An individual health care provider (also …
9Health promotion — Health promotion, as defined by the World Health Organization, is the process of enabling people to increase control over, and to improve, their health. [ [http://www.euro.who.int/AboutWHO/Policy/20010827 2 WHO/Europe Ottawa Charter for Health… …
10Health insurance — is insurance against the risk of incurring medical expenses among individuals. By estimating the overall risk of health care expenses among a targeted group, an insurer can develop a routine finance structure, such as a monthly premium or payroll …
