 Health Care Reform
"Health Care Reform" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Innovation and improvement of the health care system by reappraisal, amendment of services, and removal of faults and abuses in providing and distributing health services to patients. It includes a re-alignment of health services and health insurance to maximum demographic elements (the unemployed, indigent, uninsured, elderly, inner cities, rural areas) with reference to coverage, hospitalization, pricing and cost containment, insurers' and employers' costs, pre-existing medical conditions, prescribed drugs, equipment, and services.
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D018166
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| MeSH Number(s) |
I01.655.500.608.400.285 I01.880.604.825.608.400.285 N03.349.285 N03.623.500.608.428.285 N04.590.374.285 N05.300.380
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| Concept/Terms |
Health Care Reform- Health Care Reform
- Health Care Reforms
- Reform, Health Care
- Reforms, Health Care
- Healthcare Reform
- Healthcare Reforms
- Reform, Healthcare
- Reforms, Healthcare
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Health Care Reform" by people in this website by year, and whether "Health Care Reform" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 1994 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2013 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Health Care Reform" by people in Profiles.
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Maclean LG, Brazeau GA, Chesnut RJ, Erstad BL, Gant KO, Pitman EP, Johnson JK, Musselman T, Bradley-Baker LR. Report of the 2012-2013 professional affairs committee: tables of influence-is pharmacy hungry enough? Am J Pharm Educ. 2013 Dec 16; 77(10):S21.
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Lerner JC. Systemness. Introduction. J Ambul Care Manage. 2013 Jul-Sep; 36(3):172.
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Achenbaum WA. Why U.S. health care reform is so difficult. Hastings Cent Rep. 1994 Sep-Oct; 24(5):23-5.
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Lerner JC. Is there an alternative to a National Health Board for Technology Assessment? Med Interface. 1994 Jun; 7(6):123-6, 132.
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