| ACLI | American Council on Life Insurance |
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| ACLS | advanced cardiac life support; Assessment of Children's Language Comprehension |
| AHL | apparent half-life |
| ALCEQ | Adolescent Life Change Event Questionnaire |
| ALE | active life expectancy; allowable limits of error; amputated lower extremity |
| mental health associations | Voluntary organizations which support educational programs and research in psychiatry with the objective of the promotion of mental health. An early association in the united states was founded as the national committee for mental hygiene in 1909, became the mental health association in 1976 and later the national mental health association in 1980. State and local mental health associations in this country are chartered by the national organization and affiliated with it. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| mental health services | Organised services to provide mental health care. (12 Dec 1998) |
| child health services | Organised services to provide health care for children. (12 Dec 1998) |
| personal health services | Health care provided to individuals. (12 Dec 1998) |
| rural health | The status of health in rural populations. (12 Dec 1998) |
| rural health services | Health services, public or private, in rural areas. The services include the promotion of health and the delivery of health care. (12 Dec 1998) |
| civilian health and medical program of the uniformed services | See: CHAMPUS. (12 Dec 1998) |
| mobile health units | Movable facilities in which diagnostic and therapeutic services are provided to the community. (12 Dec 1998) |
| community health aides | Persons trained to assist professional health personnel in communicating with residents in the community concerning needs and availability of health services. (12 Dec 1998) |
| community health centres | Facilities which administer the delivery of health care services to people living in a community or neighborhood. (12 Dec 1998) |
| community health 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 health nursing | General and comprehensive nursing practice directed to individuals, families, or groups as it relates to and contributes to the health of a population. This is not an official program of a public health department. (12 Dec 1998) |
| community health planning | Planning that has the goals of improving health, improving accessibility to health services, and promoting efficiency in the provision of services and resources on a comprehensive basis for a whole community. (12 Dec 1998) |
| community health services | Diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive health services provided for individuals in the community. (12 Dec 1998) |
| community mental health centre | A mental health treatment centre located in a neighborhood catchment area close to the homes of patients, introduced in the 1960's via new federal legislation designed to replace the large state hospitals, which usually were located in remote rural areas; features include offering a series of comprehensive services by one or more members of the four mental health professions, provision of continuity of care, participation of consumers in the centres, community location to provide accessibility, a combination of indirect or preventive and direct services, the use of program-centreed as well as case-centreed consultation, a requirement for program evaluation, and various linkages to a variety of health and human services. (05 Mar 2000) |