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Descriptor English: United States Dept. of Health and Human Services
Descriptor Spanish: United States Dept. of Health and Human Services
Descriptor United States Dept. of Health and Human Services
Entry term(s) DHHS
Departamento de salud, educación y servicios sociales de Estados Unidos
departamento de salud y servicios sociales de Estados Unidos
Scope note: Departamento ministerial de la rama ejecutiva del Gobierno de los Estados Unidos, que se ocupa de administrar las agencias y oficinas que tienen programas relacionados con servicios sanitarios y sociales.
Descriptor Portuguese: United States Dept. of Health and Human Services
Descriptor French: Department of Health and Human Services (USA)
Entry term(s): DHHS
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Health and Human Services (U.S.)
United States Department of Health
United States Department of Health and Human Services
United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare
United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
United States Department of Health, Human Services
United States Department of Human Services
United States. Dept. of Health and Human Services
Tree number(s): I01.409.418.750.600
N03.540.348.500.500.600
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014483
Scope note: A cabinet department in the Executive Branch of the United States Government concerned with administering those agencies and offices having programs pertaining to health and human services.
Annotation: add UNITED STATES; research support by this agency is checked as RESEARCH SUPPORT, U.S. GOV'T, NON-P.H.S.; CATALOGER: Use NAF entry
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
ES ethics
HI history
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
OG organization & administration
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Previous Indexing: Government Agencies (1968-1975)
specific agency (1968-1975)
Public MeSH Note: 1982; see UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES 1981, see UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, EDUCATION, AND WELFARE 1976-1880
History Note: 1882(1976)
Entry Version: HHS
DeCS ID: 14882
Unique ID: D014483
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1976/01/01
Date of Entry: 1975/07/23
Revision Date: 2015/06/29
United States Dept. of Health and Human Services - Preferred
Concept UI M0022283
Scope note A cabinet department in the Executive Branch of the United States Government concerned with administering those agencies and offices having programs pertaining to health and human services.
Preferred term United States Dept. of Health and Human Services
Entry term(s) DHHS
Department of Health and Human Services
Department of Health and Human Services (U.S.)
United States Department of Health and Human Services
United States Department of Health, Human Services
United States. Dept. of Health and Human Services
United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare - Broader
Concept UI M0022281
Preferred term United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
Entry term(s) United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare
United States Department of Human Services - Narrower
Concept UI M0022282
Preferred term United States Department of Human Services
United States Department of Health - Narrower
Concept UI M0022280
Preferred term United States Department of Health



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