| HCPCS | Health Care Financing Administration common procedural collecting system; Health Care Financing Admi... |
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| HDS | Hamilton Depression Scale; Health Data Services; health delivery system; Healthcare Data Systems; he... |
| HII | Health Industries Institute; Health Insurance Institute; hemagglutination inhibitor immunoassay |
| HIP | health illness profile; health insurance plan or program; homograft incus prosthesis; hospital insur... |
| HIPC | health insurance purchasing collective; health insurance purchasing cooperative |
| national health planning information centre | A centre in the health resources administration division of planning methods and technology which provides access to current information on health planning and resources development. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| national health programs | Components of a national health care system which administer specific services, e.g., national health insurance. (12 Dec 1998) |
| national institute of mental health | A component of the national institutes of health concerned with research, overall planning, promoting, and administering mental health programs and research. (12 Dec 1998) |
| National Institutes of Health | <organisation> A nonregulatory U.S. Federal agency which has oversight of research activities that the agency funds. (09 Oct 1997) |
| state health plans | State plans prepared by the state health planning and development agencies which are made up from plans submitted by the health systems agencies and subject to review and revision by the statewide health coordinating council. (12 Dec 1998) |
| student health services | Health services for college and university students usually provided by the educational institution. (12 Dec 1998) |
| students, health occupations | Individuals enrolled in a school or formal educational program in the health occupations. (12 Dec 1998) |
| suburban health | The status of health in suburban populations. (12 Dec 1998) |
| suburban health services | Health services, public or private, in suburban areas. The services include the promotion of health and the delivery of health care. (12 Dec 1998) |
| delivery of health care | The concept concerned with all aspects of providing and distributing health services to a patient population. (12 Dec 1998) |
| delivery of health care, integrated | A health care system which combines physicians, hospitals, and other medical services with a health plan to provide the complete spectrum of medical care for its customers. In a fully integrated system, the three key elements - physicians, hospital, and health plan membership - are in balance in terms of matching medical resources with the needs of purchasers and patients. (coddington et al., integrated health care: reorganizing the physician, hospital and health plan relationship, 1994, p7) (12 Dec 1998) |
| dental health services | Services designed to promote, maintain, or restore dental health. (12 Dec 1998) |
| dental health surveys | A systematic collection of factual data pertaining to dental or oral health and disease in a human population within a given geographic area. (12 Dec 1998) |
| quality assurance, health care | Activities and programs intended to assure or improve the quality of care in either a defined medical setting or a program. The concept includes the assessment or evaluation of the quality of care; identification of problems or shortcomings in the delivery of care; designing activities to overcome these deficiencies; and follow-up monitoring to ensure effectiveness of corrective steps. (12 Dec 1998) |
| quality indicators, health care | Norms, criteria, standards, and other direct qualitative and quantitative measures used in determinng the quality of health care. (12 Dec 1998) |