| PHN | paroxysmal noctural hemoglobinuria; passive Heymann nephritis; postherpetic neuralgia; public health... |
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| FRT | Family Relations Test; full recovery time |
| MSRT | Minnesota Spatial Relations Test |
| ORT | object relations technique; operating room technician; oral rehydration therapy |
| PRD | partial reaction of degeneration; physician relations department; postradiation dysplasia |
| P.H.S. | Public Health Service |
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| PSA | public service announcement |
| USPHS | United States Public Health Service |
| VPH | Veterinary Public Health |
| public policy | A course or method of action selected, usually by a government, from among alternatives to guide and determine present and future decisions. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| public sector | The area of a nation's economy that is tax-supported and under government control. (12 Dec 1998) |
| public utility commissions | State agencies that regulate investor-owned utilities operating in the state. (05 Dec 1998) |
| public utility district | (PUD) A publicly owned energy producer or distributor. PUDs operate as special government districts under the authority of elected commissions. They are not regulated by public utility commissions. (05 Dec 1998) |
| public utility regulatory policies act | (PURPA) A federal law requiring a utility to buy the power produced by a qualifying facility at a price equal to that which the utility would otherwise pay if it were to build its own power plant or buy power from another source. (05 Dec 1998) |
| hospitals, public | Hospitals controlled by various types of government, i.e., city, county, district, state or federal. (12 Dec 1998) |
| environment and public health | Natural and man-made environments and their impact on public health. (12 Dec 1998) |
| united states public health service | See: USPHS. (12 Dec 1998) |
| race relations | Cultural contacts between people of different races. (12 Dec 1998) |
| parent-child relations | The interactions between parent and child. (12 Dec 1998) |
| mind-body relations | <psychology> The relation between the mind and the body in a religious, social, spiritual, behavioural, and metaphysical context. This concept is significant in the field of alternative medicine. It differs from the relationship between physiologic processes and behaviour where the emphasis is on the body's physiology ( = psychophysiology). (12 Dec 1998) |
| physician-nurse relations | The reciprocal interaction of physicians and nurses. (12 Dec 1998) |
| physician-patient relations | The interactions between physician and patient. (12 Dec 1998) |
| community-institutional relations | The interactions between members of a community and representatives of the institutions within that community. (12 Dec 1998) |
| mother-child relations | Interaction between the mother and the child. (12 Dec 1998) |