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Descriptor English: Health Care Reform
Descriptor Spanish: Reforma de la Atención de Salud
Descriptor reforma de la atención a la salud
Entry term(s) reforma de la asistencia sanitaria
reforma del sector sanitario
reforma sanitaria
Scope note: Innovación y mejoramiento del sistema sanitario mediante la reevaluación y reforma de los servicios y la eliminación de defectos y abusos en la provisión y distribución de los servicios de salud para los pacientes. Incluye la reorientación de los servicios y seguros de salud para un mayor número de personas (desempleados, indigentes, no asegurados y ancianos en los centros urbanos y en las zonas rurales) en lo que se refiere a la cobertura, hospitalización, restricción de precios y costos, los costes de aseguradoras y empresarios, las condiciones médicas preexistentes, los medicamentos prescritos, el equipamiento y los servicios.
Descriptor Portuguese: Reforma dos Serviços de Saúde
Descriptor French: Réforme des soins de santé
Entry term(s): Health Care Reforms
Healthcare Reform
Healthcare Reforms
Reform, Health Care
Reform, Healthcare
Reforms, Health Care
Reforms, Healthcare
Tree 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
SP1.852.802
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D018166
Scope note: 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.
Annotation: not restricted to US; specify state or country
Allowable Qualifiers: CL classification
EC economics
ES ethics
HI history
LJ legislation & jurisprudence
MT methods
OG organization & administration
SN statistics & numerical data
ST standards
TD trends
Previous Indexing: Delivery of Health Care (1970-1993)
Health Planning (1968-1992)
Health Policy (1981-1993)
Health Services (1977-1993)
Public MeSH Note: 94
History Note: 94
Related: Single-Payer System MeSH
DeCS ID: 31424
Unique ID: D018166
Documents indexed in the Virtual Health Library (VHL): Click here to access the VHL documents
Date Established: 1994/01/01
Date of Entry: 1993/05/28
Revision Date: 2010/06/25
Health Care Reform - Preferred
Concept UI M0027387
Scope note 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.
Preferred term Health Care Reform
Entry term(s) Health Care Reforms
Healthcare Reform
Healthcare Reforms
Reform, Health Care
Reform, Healthcare
Reforms, Health Care
Reforms, Healthcare



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