Government Agencies
Administrative units of government responsible for policy making and management of governmental activities.
United States Government Agencies
United States
The term "United States" in a medical context often refers to the country where a patient or study participant resides, and is not a medical term per se, but relevant for epidemiological studies, healthcare policies, and understanding differences in disease prevalence, treatment patterns, and health outcomes across various geographic locations.
Government
Environmental Health
Public Health
Financing, Government
Federal, state, or local government organized methods of financial assistance.
Federal Government
Local Government
Government Programs
State Government
The level of governmental organization and function below that of the national or country-wide government.
Home Care Agencies
Public or private organizations that provide, either directly or through arrangements with other organizations, home health services in the patient's home. (Hospital Administration Terminology, 2d ed)
Health Policy
Decisions, usually developed by government policymakers, for determining present and future objectives pertaining to the health care system.
Public Policy
A course or method of action selected, usually by a government, from among alternatives to guide and determine present and future decisions.
United States Environmental Protection Agency
An agency in the Executive Branch of the Federal Government. It was created as an independent regulatory agency responsible for the implementation of federal laws designed to protect the environment. Its mission is to protect human health and the ENVIRONMENT.
Private Sector
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.
Interinstitutional Relations
The interactions between representatives of institutions, agencies, or organizations.
Policy Making
National Health Programs
Organizations
Public Health Administration
Public Sector
The area of a nation's economy that is tax-supported and under government control.
Government Publications as Topic
Public Opinion
United States Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
An agency of the PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE established in 1990 to "provide indexing, abstracting, translating, publishing, and other services leading to a more effective and timely dissemination of information on research, demonstration projects, and evaluations with respect to health care to public and private entities and individuals engaged in the improvement of health care delivery..." It supersedes the National Center for Health Services Research. The United States Agency for Health Care Policy and Research was renamed Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) under the Healthcare Research and Quality Act of 1999.
Delivery of Health Care
International Cooperation
Developing Countries
Health Care Sector
Health Systems Agencies
Health planning and resources development agencies which function in each health service area of the United States (PL 93-641).