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DEPARTMENT OF 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 ("Department of 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 "Department 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 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is part of the U.S. Public Health Service of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
(Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, NCI Dictionary)
The CDC is part of the U.S. Public Health Service of the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS).
(CDC, 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)
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)
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)
An office within the National Institutes of Health that monitors scientific progress in basic and clinical research involving recombinant DNA and human gene transfer, advises federal departments and agencies on ways to minimize the possibility that knowledge and technologies emanating from vitally important biological research will be misused to threaten public health or national security, provides policy advice to the Department of Health and Human Services on the broad array of complex medical, ethical, legal, and social issues raised by the development and use of genetic technologies and Xenotransplantation.
(Office of Biotechnology Activities, NCI Thesaurus)
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), a component of the US Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, is the Federal Government's focal point for research of the availability, quality, and costs of health care services; and ways to improve the effectiveness and appropriateness of clinical practice, including the prevention of diseases.
(Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 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)
