| IHS | idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome; inactivated horse serum; Indian Health Service; integrated he... |
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| AAAHE | American Association for the Advancement of Health Education |
| AAHE | Association for the Advancement of Health Education |
| AAHPER | American Association for Health, Physical Education, and Recreation |
| AHEA | area health education activity |
| education, pharmacy, continuing | Educational programs designed to inform graduate pharmacists of recent advances in their particular field. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| education, pharmacy, graduate | Educational programs for pharmacists who have a bachelor's degree or a doctor of pharmacy degree entering a specific field of pharmacy. They may lead to an advanced degree. (12 Dec 1998) |
| education, predental | Preparatory education meeting the requirements for admission to dental school. (12 Dec 1998) |
| education, premedical | Preparatory education meeting the requirements for admission to medical school. (12 Dec 1998) |
| education, professional | Formal education and training in preparation for the practice of a profession. (12 Dec 1998) |
| education, professional, retraining | Educational programs for individuals who have been inactive in their profession, or who wish to regain unused skills. (12 Dec 1998) |
| education, special | Education of the individual who markedly deviates intellectually, physically, socially, or emotionally from those considered to be normal, thus requiring special instruction. (12 Dec 1998) |
| education, veterinary | Use for general articles concerning veterinary medical education. (12 Dec 1998) |
| adolescent health services | Organised services to provide health care to adolescents, ages ranging from 13 through 18 years. (12 Dec 1998) |
| allied health occupations | Occupations of medical personnel who are not physicians, and are qualified by special training and, frequently, by licensure to work in supporting roles in the health care field. These occupations include, but are not limited to, medical technology, physical therapy, physician assistant, etc. (12 Dec 1998) |
| allied health personnel | Health care workers specially trained and licensed to assist and support the work of health professionals. Often used synonymously with paramedical personnel, the term generally refers to all health care workers who perform tasks which must otherwise be performed by a physician or other health professional. (12 Dec 1998) |
| allied health professional | An individual trained to perform services in the care of patients other than a physician or registered nurse; includes a variety of therapy technicians (e.g., pulmonary), radiology technicians, physical therapists, etc. (05 Mar 2000) |
| attitude of health personnel | Attitudes of personnel toward their patients, other professionals, toward the medical care system, etc. (12 Dec 1998) |
| attitude to health | Public attitudes toward health, disease, and the medical care system. (12 Dec 1998) |
| behavioural health | An interdisciplinary field dedicated to promoting a philosophy of health that stresses individual responsibility in the application of behavioural and biomedical science knowledge and techniques to the maintenance of health and prevention of illness and dysfunction by a variety of self-initiated individual and shared activities. (05 Mar 2000) |