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The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is an agency of the United States Department of Health and Human Services and is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and health-related research. [1] It comprises 27 separate institutes and centers (ICs) that carry out its mission in different areas of biomedical ...
The Health Communication Working Group of the American Public Health Association was established to examine the role of health communication in public health promotion. The National Cancer Institute (National Institutes of Health) establishes the Health Communication and Informatics Research Branch (HCIRB) in their Behavioral Research Program ...
The National Institutes of Health, commonly referred to as NIH, is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research. It was founded in the late 1880s and is now part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services. Many NIH facilities are located in Bethesda, Maryland, and ...
Centre for Health Protection (CHP; Hong Kong) Institute of Epidemiology, Disease Control and Research (IEDCR; Bangladesh) [14] National Center for Disease Prevention and Control (NCDPC; Philippines) National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC; India) Disease Control Division, Ministry of Health (DCD MOH; Malaysia)
Patient Safety Awareness Week (March 14–20) with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Brain Awareness Week (March 15–21) with the Dana Foundation. World Sleep Day (March 19) with the ...
Health promotion is aligned with health equity and can be a focus of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) dedicated to social justice or human rights. Health literacy can be developed in schools, while aspects of health promotion such as breastfeeding promotion can depend on laws and rules of public spaces.
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology ( ONC) is a staff division of the Office of the Secretary, within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. ONC leads national health IT efforts, charged as the principal federal entity to coordinate nationwide efforts to implement and use the most advanced health ...
A six-minute video documentary of NICE from 2008. The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence ( NICE) is an executive non-departmental public body, in England, of the Department of Health and Social Care, [1] that publishes guidelines in four areas: [2] the use of health technologies within England's National Health Service (NHS) and ...