Terms Related to Rural Health Service

• Urban Health Service

  Health services, public or private, in urban areas. The services include the promotion of health and the delivery of health care.

• Suburban Health Service

  Health services, public or private, in suburban areas. The services include the promotion of health and the delivery of health care.

• Agency for Health Care Policy and Research

  An agency of the PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE established in 1990 to "provide indexing, abstracting, translating, publishing, and other services leading to a more effective and ...

• Health Resources and Services Administration (U.S.)

  A component of the PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE that provides leadership related to the delivery of health services and the requirements for and distribution of health ...

• Local Comprehensive Health Plans

  Statements of goals for the delivery of health services pertaining to the Health Systems Agency service area, established under PL 93-641, and consistent with national ...

• Health Care Provider

  Men and women working in the provision of health services, whether as individual practitioners or employees of health institutions and programs, whether or not professionally ...

• Competitive Health Plan

  Alternative health care delivery mechanisms, such as PREFERRED PROVIDER ORGANIZATIONS or other health insurance services or prepaid plans (other than HEALTH MAINTENANCE ORGANIZATIONS), that meet ...