Health Facility Size
Health Facility Administration
Management of the organization of HEALTH FACILITIES.
Health Status
The level of health of the individual, group, or population as subjectively assessed by the individual or by more objective measures.
Public Health
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.
Delivery of Health Care
The concept concerned with all aspects of providing and distributing health services to a patient population.
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.
Maternal Health Services
Organized services to provide health care to expectant and nursing mothers.
Health Policy
Decisions, usually developed by government policymakers, for determining present and future objectives pertaining to the health care system.
Health Personnel
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)
Rural Health Services
Health services, public or private, in rural areas. The services include the promotion of health and the delivery of health care.
Quality of Health Care
Health Care Surveys
Statistical measures of utilization and other aspects of the provision of health care services including hospitalization and ambulatory care.
Skilled Nursing Facilities
Health Surveys
A systematic collection of factual data pertaining to health and disease in a human population within a given geographic area.
Patient Acceptance of Health Care
The seeking and acceptance by patients of health service.
Health Promotion
Tanzania
A republic in eastern Africa, south of UGANDA and north of MOZAMBIQUE. Its capital is Dar es Salaam. It was formed in 1964 by a merger of the countries of TANGANYIKA and ZANZIBAR.
Health Care Reform
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.
Health Services Research
The integration of epidemiologic, sociological, economic, and other analytic sciences in the study of health services. Health services research is usually concerned with relationships between need, demand, supply, use, and outcome of health services. The aim of the research is evaluation, particularly in terms of structure, process, output, and outcome. (From Last, Dictionary of Epidemiology, 2d ed)
Primary Health Care
Health Planning
Planning for needed health and/or welfare services and facilities.
Kenya
Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
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).
Malaria
A protozoan disease caused in humans by four species of the PLASMODIUM genus: PLASMODIUM FALCIPARUM; PLASMODIUM VIVAX; PLASMODIUM OVALE; and PLASMODIUM MALARIAE; and transmitted by the bite of an infected female mosquito of the genus ANOPHELES. Malaria is endemic in parts of Asia, Africa, Central and South America, Oceania, and certain Caribbean islands. It is characterized by extreme exhaustion associated with paroxysms of high FEVER; SWEATING; shaking CHILLS; and ANEMIA. Malaria in ANIMALS is caused by other species of plasmodia.
Health Services Needs and Demand
Health services required by a population or community as well as the health services that the population or community is able and willing to pay for.
Attitude to Health
Public attitudes toward health, disease, and the medical care system.
Health Services
Services for the diagnosis and treatment of disease and the maintenance of health.
Rural Health
The status of health in rural populations.
Community Health Services
Diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive health services provided for individuals in the community.
Child Health Services
Organized services to provide health care for children.
Cross-Sectional Studies
Health Behavior
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.
Public Health Administration
Management of public health organizations or agencies.
Ethiopia
Delivery, Obstetric
Delivery of the FETUS and PLACENTA under the care of an obstetrician or a health worker. Obstetric deliveries may involve physical, psychological, medical, or surgical interventions.
Delivery of Health Care, Integrated
A health care system which combines physicians, hospitals, and other medical services with a health plan to provide the complete spectrum of medical care for its customers. In a fully integrated system, the three key elements - physicians, hospital, and health plan membership - are in balance in terms of matching medical resources with the needs of purchasers and patients. (Coddington et al., Integrated Health Care: Reorganizing the Physician, Hospital and Health Plan Relationship, 1994, p7)
Insurance, Health
Health Expenditures
Health Education
Education that increases the awareness and favorably influences the attitudes and knowledge relating to the improvement of health on a personal or community basis.
Clinical Governance
A framework through which the United Kingdom's National Health Service organizations are accountable for continually improving the quality of their services and safeguarding high standards of care by creating an environment in which excellence in clinical care will flourish. (Scally and Donaldson, BMJ (4 July 1998): 61-65)
Public Health Practice
The activities and endeavors of the public health services in a community on any level.
National Health Programs
Zambia
A republic in southern Africa, south of DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC OF THE CONGO and TANZANIA, and north of ZIMBABWE. Its capital is Lusaka. It was formerly called Northern Rhodesia.
Ambulatory Care Facilities
Those facilities which administer health services to individuals who do not require hospitalization or institutionalization.
Uganda
A republic in eastern Africa, south of SUDAN and west of KENYA. Its capital is Kampala.
World Health
The concept pertaining to the health status of inhabitants of the world.
Regional Health Planning
Planning for health resources at a regional or multi-state level.
Residential Facilities
Socioeconomic Factors
Health Facility Administrators
Managerial personnel responsible for implementing policy and directing the activities of health care facilities such as nursing homes.
Community Health Centers
Facilities which administer the delivery of health care services to people living in a community or neighborhood.
Maternal Mortality
Maternal deaths resulting from complications of pregnancy and childbirth in a given population.
Antimalarials
Agents used in the treatment of malaria. They are usually classified on the basis of their action against plasmodia at different stages in their life cycle in the human. (From AMA, Drug Evaluations Annual, 1992, p1585)
Reproductive Health Services
Nigeria
Private Sector
Oral Health
Developing Countries
Health Status Disparities
Pregnancy
World Health Organization
Health Manpower
The availability of HEALTH PERSONNEL. It includes the demand and recruitment of both professional and allied health personnel, their present and future supply and distribution, and their assignment and utilization.
Interviews as Topic
Attitude of Health Personnel
Environmental Health
The science of controlling or modifying those conditions, influences, or forces surrounding man which relate to promoting, establishing, and maintaining health.
Health Facility Planning
Areawide planning for health care institutions on the basis of projected consumer need.
Occupational Health
The promotion and maintenance of physical and mental health in the work environment.
Malawi
A republic in southern Africa east of ZAMBIA and MOZAMBIQUE. Its capital is Lilongwe. It was formerly called Nyasaland.
Case Management
A traditional term for all the activities which a physician or other health care professional normally performs to insure the coordination of the medical services required by a patient. It also, when used in connection with managed care, covers all the activities of evaluating the patient, planning treatment, referral, and follow-up so that care is continuous and comprehensive and payment for the care is obtained. (From Slee & Slee, Health Care Terms, 2nd ed)
Artemisinins
Urban Health
The status of health in urban populations.
Quality Assurance, Health Care
Activities and programs intended to assure or improve the quality of care in either a defined medical setting or a program. The concept includes the assessment or evaluation of the quality of care; identification of problems or shortcomings in the delivery of care; designing activities to overcome these deficiencies; and follow-up monitoring to ensure effectiveness of corrective steps.
Health Care Rationing
Planning for the equitable allocation, apportionment, or distribution of available health resources.
Medicine, African Traditional
Mental Health Services
Organized services to provide mental health care.
Outcome Assessment (Health Care)
Questionnaires
Health Priorities
Preferentially rated health-related activities or functions to be used in establishing health planning goals. This may refer specifically to PL93-641.
Health Facilities, Proprietary
Health Resources
Available manpower, facilities, revenue, equipment, and supplies to produce requisite health care and services.
Fees and Charges
Amounts charged to the patient as payer for health care services.
Health Care Sector
Economic sector concerned with the provision, distribution, and consumption of health care services and related products.
Urban Health Services
Health services, public or private, in urban areas. The services include the promotion of health and the delivery of health care.
Nepal
I'm sorry for any confusion, but "Nepal" is not a medical term that has a definition in the field of medicine. It is actually the name of a country located in South Asia, known officially as the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal. If you have any questions related to medicine or health, I would be happy to try and help answer those for you!