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Abstract
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.
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Synonyms
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- 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
- United States Department of Health, Education and Welfare
- United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare
- United States Department of Human Services
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Aspects Covered
9 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.
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Indexing 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
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History Note
1882(1976)
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Previous Indexing
- Government Agencies (1968-1975)
- specific agency (1968-1975)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. United States Dept. of Health and Human Services. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D014483. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D014483
- United States Dept. of Health and Human Services. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Health_and_Human_Services
- United States Dept. of Health and Human Services. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q942326