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Ministries of health in several sub-Saharan African countries, including Zambia, Uganda, and South African, were reported to have begun planning health system reform including hospital accreditation before 2002. However, most hospitals in Africa are administered by local health ministries or missionary organizations without accreditation programs.
2 Outcome of cardiovascular disease care. 3 See also. 4 References. ... World Health Organization ranking of health systems in 2000; Medical tourism; References
County societies sprouted up throughout the late 1800s and early 1900s. Membership in the CMA cost $10 in 1900 and included malpractice insurance. To conform to name changes at other state medical associations and the American Medical Association, the society renamed itself the California Medical Association in 1923.
It provided a framework and measurement approach to examine and compare aspects of health systems around the world. [2] It developed a series of performance indicators to assess the overall level and distribution of health in the populations, and the responsiveness and financing of health care services. It was the organization's first ever ...
America's Health Rankings started in 1990 and is the longest-running annual assessment of the nation's health on a state-by-state basis. It is founded on the World Health Organization holistic definition of health, which says health is a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.
In the US, the social and political issues surrounding access to health care have led to vigorous public debate and the almost colloquial use of terms such as health care (medical management of illness), health insurance (reimbursement of health care costs), and public health (the collective state and range of health in a population). In the US ...
Health care ratings are ratings or evaluations of health care. In the United States they have been an increasingly used tool to try to drive accountability among health care providers and in the context of classic supply/demand view of Health economics, to help health care consumers make better choices. [1]
International Society of Pharmacovigilance [1] International Union of Basic and Clinical Pharmacology [1] Medical Women's International Association [1] Médecins Sans Frontières; World Allergy Organization [1] World Association of Societies of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine [1] World Federation of Neurosurgical Societies; World Health ...