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HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with health and welfare; created in 1979
Synonyms:
Department of Health and Human Services; Health and Human Services; HHS
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("Health and Human Services" is a kind of...):
executive department (a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States)
Meronyms (parts of "Health and Human Services"):
FDA; Food and Drug Administration (a federal agency in the Department of Health and Human Services established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products)
CDC; Center for Disease Control and Prevention (a federal agency in the Department of Health and Human Services; located in Atlanta; investigates and diagnoses and tries to control or prevent diseases (especially new and unusual diseases))
PHS; United States Public Health Service (an agency that serves as the office of Surgeon General; includes agencies whose mission is to improve the public health)
National Institutes of Health; NIH (an agency in the Department of Health and Human Services whose mission is to employ science in the pursuit of knowledge to improve human health; is the principal biomedical research agency of the federal government)
Context examples:
An agency within the US Department of Health and Human Services responsible for administration of several key federal health care programs.
(Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, NCI Thesaurus)
The CDC is part of the U.S. Public Health Service of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
(CDC, NCI Dictionary)
Also called Department of Health and Human Services.
(DHHS, NCI Dictionary)
A department of the United States government concerned with administering those agencies and offices having programs pertaining to health and human services.
(Department of Health and Human Services, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Laws set by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to protect a person from risks in research studies that any federal agency or department has a part in.
(Human participant protection regulations, NCI Dictionary)
Initiative sponsored by NCI in consultation with the Department of Health and Human Services Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP) designed to help reduce the administrative burden on local IRBs and investigators while continuing a high level of protection for human research participants.
(Central Institutional Review Board, NCI Thesaurus)
Under the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) human subjects protection regulations (at 45 C.F.R. 46.103), every institution engaged in human subjects research that is funded or conducted by DHHS must obtain an Assurance Of Compliance approved by the Office for Human Research Protections (OHRP).
(Federal Wide Assurance, NCI Thesaurus)
The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is an Access Agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, charged with improving and expanding access to quality health care for low income, uninsured, isolated, vulnerable and special needs populations and meeting their unique health care needs.
(Health Resources and Services Administration, NCI Thesaurus)
Advise the Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services and the Director, NCI, with respect to the activities of the Institute including reviewing and recommending for support grants and cooperative agreements, following technical and scientific peer review.
(National Cancer Advisory Board, NCI Thesaurus)
The EUA is a statutory authority allowing the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to authorize the introduction into interstate commerce and the use of unapproved medical products or authorize unapproved uses of approved medical products intended for use in an actual or potential emergency, during an emergency declared under Section 564(b)(1) of the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the FD&C Act), as amended by the Project BioShield Act of 2004 (Public Law 108-276).
(Emergency Use Authorization, Food and Drug Administration)
