Anthropology, Education, Sociology, and Social Phenomena

Health Care Reform

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.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

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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.

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7 entry terms
  • Healthcare Reform
  • Health Care Reforms
  • Healthcare Reforms
  • Reform, Health Care
  • Reform, Healthcare
  • Reforms, Health Care
  • Reforms, Healthcare

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10 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.

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not restricted to US; specify state or country

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Previous Indexing

  • Delivery of Health Care (1970-1993)
  • Health Planning (1968-1992)
  • Health Policy (1981-1993)
  • Health Services (1977-1993)

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  1. I01w.655w.500.608w.400w.285w
  2. I01w.880w.604.825.608w.400w.285w
  3. N03w.349.285w
  4. N03w.623w.500.608w.428w.285w
  5. N04w.590.374w.285w
  6. N05.300w.380w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Health Care Reform. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D018166. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D018166
  2. Health Care Reform. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_care_reform
  3. Health Care Reform. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60603744