Managerial personnel responsible for implementing policy and directing the activities of health care facilities such as nursing homes.

Institutions which provide medical or health-related services.

Managerial personnel responsible for implementing policy and directing the activities of hospitals.

Management of the organization of HEALTH FACILITIES.

The concept concerned with all aspects of providing and distributing health services to a patient population.

Branch of medicine concerned with the prevention and control of disease and disability, and the promotion of physical and mental health of the population on the international, national, state, or municipal level.

The level of health of the individual, group, or population as subjectively assessed by the individual or by more objective measures.

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.

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)

Nurses professionally qualified in administration.

Decisions, usually developed by government policymakers, for determining present and future objectives pertaining to the health care system.

Organized services to provide health care to expectant and nursing mothers.

Health services, public or private, in rural areas. The services include the promotion of health and the delivery of health care.

The levels of excellence which characterize the health service or health care provided based on accepted standards of quality.

Statistical measures of utilization and other aspects of the provision of health care services including hospitalization and ambulatory care.