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Health Information Systems
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D063005 |
[A system for the collection and/or processing of data from various sources, and using the information for policy making and management of health services. It could be paper-based or electronic. (From http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/TOPICS/EXTHEALTHNUTRITIONANDPOPULATION/EXTHSD/0,,contentMDK:22239824~menuPK:376799~pagePK:148956~piPK:216618~theSitePK:376793,00.html. http://www.who.int/healthinfo/systems/en/)
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Health Insurance Exchanges
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D062265 |
[State-provided health insurance marketplaces established under the PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT.
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Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
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D020408 |
[Public Law 104-91 enacted in 1996, was designed to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the healthcare system, protect health insurance coverage for workers and their families, and to protect individual personal health information.
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Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
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D007722 |
[Knowledge, attitudes, and associated behaviors which pertain to health-related topics such as PATHOLOGIC PROCESSES or diseases, their prevention, and treatment. This term refers to non-health workers and health workers (HEALTH PERSONNEL).
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Health Level Seven
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D057208 |
[An American National Standards Institute-accredited organization working on specifications to support development and advancement of clinical and administrative standards for healthcare.
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Health Literacy
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D057220 |
[Degree to which individuals have the capacity to obtain, process, and understand basic health information and services needed to make appropriate health decisions.
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Health Maintenance Organizations
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D006279 |
[Organized systems for providing comprehensive prepaid health care that have five basic attributes: (1) provide care in a defined geographic area; (2) provide or ensure delivery of an agreed-upon set of basic and supplemental health maintenance and treatment services; (3) provide care to a voluntarily enrolled group of persons; (4) require their enrollees to use the services of designated providers; and (5) receive reimbursement through a predetermined, fixed, periodic prepayment made by the enrollee without regard to the degree of services provided. (From Facts on File Dictionary of Health Care Management, 1988)
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Health Occupations
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D006281 |
[Professions or other business activities directed to the cure and prevention of disease. For occupations of medical personnel who are not physicians but who are working in the fields of medical technology, physical therapy, etc., ALLIED HEALTH OCCUPATIONS is available.
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Health Personnel
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D006282 |
[Men and women working in the provision of health services, whether as individual practitioners or employees of health institutions and programs, whether or not professionally trained, and whether or not subject to public regulation. (From A Discursive Dictionary of Health Care, 1976)
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Health Physics
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D006283 |
[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.
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Health Plan Implementation
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D006284 |
[Those actions designed to carry out recommendations pertaining to health plans or programs.
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Health Planning
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D006285 |
[Planning for needed health and/or welfare services and facilities.
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Health Planning Councils
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D006286 |
[Organized groups serving in advisory capacities related to health planning activities.
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Health Planning Guidelines
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D006287 |
[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.
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Health Planning Organizations
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D006288 |
[Organizations involved in all aspects of health planning activities.
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Health Planning Support
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D006289 |
[Financial resources provided for activities related to health planning and development.
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Health Planning Technical Assistance
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D006290 |
[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.
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Health Policy
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D006291 |
[Decisions, usually developed by government policymakers, for determining present and future objectives pertaining to the health care system.
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Health Priorities
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D006292 |
[Preferentially rated health-related activities or functions to be used in establishing health planning goals. This may refer specifically to PL93-641.
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Health Promotion
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D006293 |
[Encouraging consumer behaviors most likely to optimize health potentials (physical and psychosocial) through health information, preventive programs, and access to medical care.
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