Health and Safety
121Health literacy — Introduction= HistoryThe young and multidisciplinary field of health literacy emerged from two expert groups; physicians and other health providers and health educators, and Adult Basic Education (ABE) and English as Second Language (ESL)… …
122Health information technology — Introduction= Health information technology (HIT) provides the umbrella framework to describe the comprehensive management of health information and its secure exchange between consumers, providers, government and quality entities, and insurers.… …
123Health economics — For the journal, see Health Economics. Economics …
124Health, public — The approach to medicine that is concerned with the health of the community as a whole. Public health is community health. It has been said that: Health care is vital to all of us some of the time, but public health is vital to all of us all of… …
125Health care reform debate in the United States — See also: Health care reform in the United States, Health care in the United States, and Uninsured in the United States Health care in the United States Public health care Federal Employees Health Benefits Program Indian Health Service… …
126Health care reform in the United States — ] Current estimates put U.S. health care spending at approximately 16% of GDP. [http://www.cms.hhs.gov/NationalHealthExpendData/25 NHE Fact Sheet.asp#TopOfPage National Health Expenditure Data: NHE Fact Sheet, ] Centers for Medicare and Medicaid… …
127safety — /sayf tee/, n., pl. safeties. 1. the state of being safe; freedom from the occurrence or risk of injury, danger, or loss. 2. the quality of averting or not causing injury, danger, or loss. 3. a contrivance or device to prevent injury or avert… …
128health law — Introduction the branch of law dealing with various aspects of health care, including the practices of caregivers and the rights of patients. Maintenance of professional standards History Physicians historically have set their own standards of… …
