Comprehensive Health Care
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

HIV prevention and primary care for transgender women in a community-based clinic.

30 Aug 2009 Male-to-female transgender individuals, or transgender women (TW), are at high risk for HIV infection and face multiple barriers to HIV care. Advocates agree that numerous factors need to be addressed concurrently to prevent HIV infection in TW, ... Read more...

The medical home--improving quality of primary care for children.

30 Jul 2009 The concept of a medical home appears to be a key driver for enhancing the value of health services as care systems are transitioned to meet the ongoing challenges of improving quality and containing costs. This article provides an overview of the ... Read more...

[How nationally concordated measures for quality assurance in clinical care of term and preterm infants are put into practice in Baden-Württemberg]

21 Jul 2009 BACKGROUND: By the end of the year 2007, pediatric hospitals in Baden-Württemberg had assigned themselves to one of three levels of perinatal care according to a checklist of the German Federal Joint Committee (F-JC) effective since January 1st, ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Comprehensive Health Care'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• HIV prevention and primary care for transgender women in a community-based clinic. 30 Aug 2009
• The medical home--improving quality of primary care for children. 30 Jul 2009
• [How nationally concordated measures for quality assurance in clinical care of term and preterm infants are put into practice in Baden-Württemberg] 21 Jul 2009
• Introducing the PACE concept: managed care for the frail older adult. 29 Jun 2009
• Evaluation of Rhode Island's Pediatric Practice Enhancement Project (PPEP). 29 Jun 2009
• Introduction: HIV. 29 Jun 2009
• [Committed to the health of the population--the public health service] 29 Jun 2009
• Revised cost estimates of Medicaid recipients with serious mental illness and HIV-AIDS. 29 Jun 2009
• Improved outcomes associated with medical home implementation in pediatric primary care. 29 Jun 2009
• Medical homes: challenges in translating theory into practice. 29 Jun 2009
• An integrated model for defining the scope of psychogeriatrics: the five Cs. 7 Jun 2009
• The periodontist's role in obtaining clearance prior to patients undergoing a kidney transplant. 30 May 2009
• The one-stop shop. 30 May 2009
• Access to the medical home: new findings from the 2005-2006 National Survey of Children with Special Health Care Needs. 30 May 2009
• [Privately insured patients value comprehensive treatments. German public insurance patients are more satisfied with their fund] 12 May 2009
• Emergency and comprehensive care for stroke needed. 30 Apr 2009
• The organization of health services and visceral leishmaniasis: an integrated intervention to improve diagnosis and treatment. 29 Apr 2009
• Learning from Alma Ata: the medical home and comprehensive primary health care. 29 Apr 2009
• Oral assessments. 29 Apr 2009
• GrantWatch: Outcomes. 29 Apr 2009

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Technical information about 'Comprehensive Health Care'

Definition: Providing for the full range of personal health services for diagnosis, treatment, follow-up and rehabilitation of patients.

Descriptor UI: D003191

Alternative terms: Comprehensive Health Care; Health Care, Comprehensive; Comprehensive Healthcare; Healthcare, Comprehensive;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; manpower; methods;

Tree Number: N04.590.233;

History Note: 68

Technical Notes: IM