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Health Planning

Medical Definition: Planning for needed health and/or welfare services and facilities.
Guide Notes: specify geog & add UNITED STATES (NIM) for X ref STATE HEALTH PLANNING, UNITED STATES
Also Called: National Health Planning and Resources Development Act of 1974,PL93-641,Planning, Health and Welfare,State Health Planning, United States
Previously Indexed: Social Medicine (1966-1967),Social Welfare (1966-1967)
Health Planning Categories.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Health Plan Implementation - Those actions designed to carry out recommendations pertaining to health plans or programs.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Health Planning Guidelines - Recommendations for directing health planning functions and policies. These may be mandated by PL93-641 and issued by the Department of Health and Human Services for use by state and local planning agencies.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Health Planning Technical Assistance - The provision of expert assistance in developing health planning programs, plans as technical materials, etc., as requested by Health Systems Agencies or other health planning organizations.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Health Priorities - Preferentially rated health-related activities or functions to be used in establishing health planning goals. This may refer specifically to PL93-641.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Health Resources - Available manpower, facilities, revenue, equipment, and supplies to produce requisite health care and services.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Health Services Research - The integration of epidemiologic, sociological, economic, and other analytic sciences in the study of health services. Health services research is usually concerned with relationships between need, demand, supply, use, and outcome of health services. The aim of the research is evaluation, particularly in terms of structure, process, output, and outcome. (From Last, Dictionary of Epidemiology, 2d ed)
Canadian Medical Guide Definition National Health Programs - Components of a national health care system which administer specific services, e.g., national health insurance.
Canadian Medical Guide Definition Regional Health Planning - Planning for health resources at a regional or multi-state level.

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