Concept information
Preferred term
health policy
Definition
- Health policy denotes normative and procedural dimensions of assuring physical, mental, and social well-being, including but transcending medical care. Spanning normatively and empirically contested domains, however, health policy means different things to different people. [Source: International Encyclopedia of Political Science; Health Policy]
Broader concept
Narrower concepts
- access to health care
- autonomous health care plan/structure
- bed occupancy
- bioterrorism
- case mix
- case rate reimbursement
- chronic illness
- clinical practice guidelines
- collaborative care
- community health
- community health status indicators
- competitive bidding
- continuity of care
- Department of Health and Human Services
- disenrollment
- drug rehabilitation
- electrocardiogram
- emergency rooms
- enrollee
- enrollment
- entitlement programs
- environmental health science
- episodes of care and disease
- evidence-based medicine
- family-oriented care
- feasibility study
- food policy
- genomics
- global blood safety projects
- graduate medical education
- health care as luxury goods
- health care provider
- health care reform
- health care services
- health care systems
- health care utilization
- health costs
- health expenditure
- health insurance
- health officer and health commissioner
- health plans
- health services
- health statistics
- healthy people 2010
- Hippocratic Oath
- home health care
- home health care agencies
- hospices
- indigent health care
- inpatient services
- long-term care
- mandated coverage
- maternal and child health
- Medicaid
- medical appropriateness of care
- medical savings accounts
- Medicare
- mobile health units
- neonatal care
- nutrition policy
- organization of health care
- outcomes research
- philanthropy in health care
- price control in pharmaceutical industry
- price discrimination
- primary care
- privilege
- public health core disciplines
- release
- residency programs
- risk selection
- safety-net providers
- screening policy
- self-insurance
- self-referral
- subacute care
- tertiary care
- trauma
- underserved populations
- uninsured people
- U.S. health care system
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URI
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