| CHPA | community health planning agency; community health purchasing alliance |
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| HIP | health illness profile; health insurance plan or program; homograft incus prosthesis; hospital insur... |
| CMH | cardiomyopathy, hypertrophic; community mental health [services or program]; congenital malformation... |
| CCRC | comprehensive care retirement community; continuing care retirement community |
| HAP | Handicapped Aid Program; Hazardous Air Pollutants [List]; hazardous air pollution; health alliance p... |
| immunization program | Organised services to administer immunization procedures in the prevention of various diseases. The programs are made available over a wide range of sites: schools, hospitals, public health agencies, voluntary health agencies, etc. They are administered to an equally wide range of population groups or on various administrative levels: community, municipal, state, national, international. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| treatment protocol program | An FDA initiative to allow terminally ill patients to be given experimental drugs. (14 Nov 1997) |
| biotic community | <biology, zoology> An aggregation of different species of organisms living and interacting within the same habitat. A group of fossil species which are often found together in the same sites. (19 Jan 1998) |
| community | <biology> An association of living organisms having mutual relationships among themselves and to their environment and thus functioning, at least to some degree, as an ecological unit. (05 Jan 1998) |
| community-acquired infections | Any infection acquired in the community, that is, contrasted with those acquired in a health care facility (cross infection). An infection would be classified as community-acquired if the patient had not recently been in a health care facility or been in contact with someone who had been recently in a health care facility. (12 Dec 1998) |
| community dentistry | The practice of dentistry concerned with preventive as well as diagnostic and treatment programs in a circumscribed population. (12 Dec 1998) |
| community-institutional relations | The interactions between members of a community and representatives of the institutions within that community. (12 Dec 1998) |
| community medicine | A branch of medicine concerned with the total health of the individual within the home environment and in the community, and with the application of comprehensive care to the prevention and treatment of illness in the entire community. (12 Dec 1998) |
| community networks | Organizations and individuals cooperating together toward a common goal at the local or grassroots level. (12 Dec 1998) |
| community nurse | A nurse who provides care to individuals or groups in a community outside of institutions. Usually works through the auspices of a state or city health department. Synonym: community health nurse, community nurse. (05 Mar 2000) |
| community pharmacy services | Total pharmaceutical services provided to the public through community pharmacies. (12 Dec 1998) |
| community psychiatry | Branch of psychiatry concerned with the provision and delivery of a coordinated program of mental health care to a specified population. The foci included in this concept are: all social, psychological and physical factors related to aetiology, prevention, and maintaining positive mental health in the community. (12 Dec 1998) |
| community psychology | The application of psychology to community programs, e.g., in the schools, correctional and welfare systems, and community mental health centres. (05 Mar 2000) |
| plant community | <botany, ecology> The plant populations existing in a shared habitat or environment. (31 Dec 1997) |
| hospitals, community | Institutions with permanent facilities and organised medical staff which provide the full range of hospital services primarily to a neighborhood area. (12 Dec 1998) |