| USPHS | United States Public Health Service |
|---|---|
| AHSDF | area health service development fund |
| APHIS | Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service |
| COHSE | Confederation of Health Service Employees |
| HERS | Health Evaluation and Referral Service; hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome |
| health physics | The science concerned with problems of radiation protection relevant to reducing or preventing radiation exposure, and the effects of ionizing radiation on humans and their environment. (12 Dec 1998) |
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| health plan implementation | Those actions designed to carry out recommendations pertaining to health plans or programs. (12 Dec 1998) |
| health planning | Planning for needed health and/or welfare services and facilities. (12 Dec 1998) |
| health planning councils | Organised groups serving in advisory capacities related to health planning activities. (12 Dec 1998) |
| health planning guidelines | Recommendations for directing health planning functions and policies. These may be mandated by pl93-641 and issued by the department of health and human services for use by state and local planning agencies. (12 Dec 1998) |
| health planning organizations | Organizations involved in all aspects of health planning activities. (12 Dec 1998) |
| health planning support | Financial resources provided for activities related to health planning and development. (12 Dec 1998) |
| health planning technical assistance | The provision of expert assistance in developing health planning programs, plans as technical materials, etc., as requested by health systems agencies or other health planning organizations. (12 Dec 1998) |
| health priorities | Preferentially rated health-related activities or functions to be used in establishing health planning goals. This may refer specifically to pl93-641. (12 Dec 1998) |
| health promotion | Encouraging consumer behaviours most likely to optimise health potentials (physical and psychosocial) through health information, preventive programs, and access to medical care. (12 Dec 1998) |
| health psychology | The aggregate of the specific educational, scientific, and professional contributions of the discipline of psychology to the promotion and maintenance of health, the prevention and treatment of illness, the identification of aetiologic and diagnostic correlates of health, illness, and related dysfunction, and the analysis and improvement of the health care system. (05 Mar 2000) |
| health resources | Available manpower, facilities, revenue, equipment, and supplies to produce requisite health care and services. (12 Dec 1998) |
| health risk assessment | Method of describing an individual's chance of falling ill or dying of a specified condition, based on actuarial calculations that allow for known exposure to risk; expressed as expected age at which death or disease will occur, and intended as a way of drawing an individual's attention to the probable consequences of risk behaviour. (05 Mar 2000) |
| health services | Services for the diagnosis and treatment of disease and the maintenance of health. (12 Dec 1998) |
| health services accessibility | The degree to which individuals are inhibited or facilitated in their ability to gain entry to and to receive care and services from the health care system. Factors influencing this ability include geographic, architectural, transportational, and financial considerations, among others. (12 Dec 1998) |