Available manpower, facilities, revenue, equipment, and supplies to produce requisite health care and services.
Societal or individual decisions about the equitable distribution of available resources.
Depressive states usually of moderate intensity in contrast with major depression present in neurotic and psychotic disorders.
Evaluation of manifestations of disease.
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.
A loose confederation of computer communication networks around the world. The networks that make up the Internet are connected through several backbone networks. The Internet grew out of the US Government ARPAnet project and was designed to facilitate information exchange.
Levels within a diagnostic group which are established by various measurement criteria applied to the seriousness of a patient's disorder.
Works containing information articles on subjects in every field of knowledge, usually arranged in alphabetical order, or a similar work limited to a special field or subject. (From The ALA Glossary of Library and Information Science, 1983)
Infections caused by bacteria that show up as pink (negative) when treated by the gram-staining method.
Bacteria which lose crystal violet stain but are stained pink when treated by Gram's method.
ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION or particle radiation (high energy ELEMENTARY PARTICLES) capable of directly or indirectly producing IONS in its passage through matter. The wavelengths of ionizing electromagnetic radiation are equal to or smaller than those of short (far) ultraviolet radiation and include gamma and X-rays.
The amount of radiation energy that is deposited in a unit mass of material, such as tissues of plants or animal. In RADIOTHERAPY, radiation dosage is expressed in gray units (Gy). In RADIOLOGIC HEALTH, the dosage is expressed by the product of absorbed dose (Gy) and quality factor (a function of linear energy transfer), and is called radiation dose equivalent in sievert units (Sv).
The use of animals as investigational subjects.
The outer covering of the body that protects it from the environment. It is composed of the DERMIS and the EPIDERMIS.