Health services for college and university students usually provided by the educational institution.

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.

Schools which offer training in the area of health.

Individuals enrolled in a school or formal educational program.

Educational institutions providing facilities for teaching and research and authorized to grant academic degrees.

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.

Crafts, trades, professions, or other means of earning a living.

Individuals enrolled in a school or formal educational program in the health occupations.

Community health education events focused on prevention of disease and promotion of health through audiovisual exhibits.

Individuals enrolled in a school of medicine or a formal educational program in medicine.

Behaviors expressed by individuals to protect, maintain or promote their health status. For example, proper diet, and appropriate exercise are activities perceived to influence health status. Life style is closely associated with health behavior and factors influencing life style are socioeconomic, educational, and cultural.

A systematic collection of factual data pertaining to health and disease in a human population within a given geographic area.

Educational institutions.

Individuals enrolled a school of dentistry or a formal educational program in leading to a degree in dentistry.

Predetermined sets of questions used to collect data - clinical data, social status, occupational group, etc. The term is often applied to a self-completed survey instrument.

Individuals enrolled in a school of pharmacy or a formal educational program leading to a degree in pharmacy.

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

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

Encouraging consumer behaviors most likely to optimize health potentials (physical and psychosocial) through health information, preventive programs, and access to medical care.

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

The state wherein the person is well adjusted.

The period of medical education in a medical school. In the United States it follows the baccalaureate degree and precedes the granting of the M.D.

The assessing of academic or educational achievement. It includes all aspects of testing and test construction.

Innovation and improvement of the health care system by reappraisal, amendment of services, and removal of faults and abuses in providing and distributing health services to patients. It includes a re-alignment of health services and health insurance to maximum demographic elements (the unemployed, indigent, uninsured, elderly, inner cities, rural areas) with reference to coverage, hospitalization, pricing and cost containment, insurers' and employers' costs, pre-existing medical conditions, prescribed drugs, equipment, and services.

A course of study offered by an educational institution.

Public attitudes toward health, disease, and the medical care system.

Diseases caused by factors involved in one's employment.

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).

The state of the organism when it functions optimally without evidence of disease.

The educational process of instructing.

The promotion and maintenance of physical and mental health in the work environment.

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.

Education that increases the awareness and favorably influences the attitudes and knowledge relating to the improvement of health on a personal or community basis.

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)

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

Planning for needed health and/or welfare services and facilities.

Care which provides integrated, accessible health care services by clinicians who are accountable for addressing a large majority of personal health care needs, developing a sustained partnership with patients, and practicing in the context of family and community. (JAMA 1995;273(3):192)

Studies in which the presence or absence of disease or other health-related variables are determined in each member of the study population or in a representative sample at one particular time. This contrasts with LONGITUDINAL STUDIES which are followed over a period of time.

Attitudes of personnel toward their patients, other professionals, toward the medical care system, etc.

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