Terms Related to Womans Health Services

• Health Maintenance Organization

  Organized systems for providing comprehensive prepaid health care that have five basic attributes: (1) provide care in a defined geographic area; (2) provide or ensure ...

• Maternal Health Service

  Organized services to provide health care to expectant and nursing mothers.

• Maternal Child Health Services

  Facilities which administer the delivery of health care services to mothers and children.

• Health Care 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 ...

• Outpatient Health Service

  Health care services provided to patients on an ambulatory basis, rather than by admission to a hospital or other health care facility. The services may ...