health care reform

Preferred Label : health care reform;

MeSH definition : 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.;

MeSH synonym : healthcare reforms; reform, health care; health care reforms; reforms, health care; healthcare reform; reform, healthcare; reforms, healthcare;

CISMeF synonym : réforme du système de santé;

DeCS synonym : Health Sector Reform;

MeSH annotation : not restricted to US; specify state or country;

Wikipedia link : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare reform;

Details

Origin ID

D018166;

UMLS CUI

C0206597;

Allowable qualifiers
- classification [MeSH Qualifier]
- economics [MeSH Qualifier]
- ethics [MeSH Qualifier]
- history [MeSH Qualifier]
- legislation and jurisprudence [MeSH Qualifier]
- methods [MeSH Qualifier]
- organization & administration [MeSH Qualifier]
- standards [MeSH Qualifier]
- statistics and numerical data [MeSH Qualifier]
- trends [MeSH Qualifier]
Automatic exact mappings (from CISMeF team)
- Health Care Reform [DeCS]
Record concept(s)
- health care reform [MeSH concept]
See also
- Decentralization [DeCS]
- single-payer system [MeSH Descriptor]
See also (suggested by CISMeF)
- patient protection and affordable care act [MeSH Descriptor]
Semantic type(s)
- Governmental or Regulatory Activity [UMLS semantic type]

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