DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Department of Health and Human Services mean? 

• DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (noun)
  The noun DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES has 1 sense:

1. the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with health and welfare; created in 1979

  Familiarity information: DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with health and welfare; created in 1979

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Synonyms:

Department of Health and Human Services; Health and Human Services; HHS

Hypernyms ("Department of Health and Human Services" is a kind of...):

executive department (a federal department in the executive branch of the government of the United States)

Meronyms (parts of "Department of Health and Human Services"):

FDA; Food and Drug Administration (a federal agency in the Department of Health and Human Services established to regulate the release of new foods and health-related products)

CDC; Center for Disease Control and Prevention (a federal agency in the Department of Health and Human Services; located in Atlanta; investigates and diagnoses and tries to control or prevent diseases (especially new and unusual diseases))

PHS; United States Public Health Service (an agency that serves as the office of Surgeon General; includes agencies whose mission is to improve the public health)

National Institutes of Health; NIH (an agency in the Department of Health and Human Services whose mission is to employ science in the pursuit of knowledge to improve human health; is the principal biomedical research agency of the federal government)

 Context examples 

The National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, is the Federal Government's principal agency for cancer research.

(National Cancer Institute, NCI Dictionary)

An agency within the Department of Health and Human Services.

(Indian Health Service, NCI Thesaurus)

Part of the National Institutes of Health of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

(National Cancer Institute, NCI Thesaurus)

NCI, part of the National Institutes of Health of the United States Department of Health and Human Services, is the Federal Government's principal agency for cancer research.

(NCI, NCI Dictionary)

The Office of Assistant Secretary of Health (OASH) is a component of the Department of Health and Human Services.

(Office of Assistant Secretary of Health, NCI Thesaurus)

The office within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) that protects the rights, welfare, and well-being of people involved in clinical trials.

(Office for Human Research Protections, NCI Dictionary)

Laws set by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) to protect a person from risks in research studies that any federal agency or department has a part in.

(Human participant protection regulations, NCI Dictionary)

One of the agencies of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

(Food and Drug Administration, NCI Thesaurus)

There are several federal agencies that are a part of the Department of Health and Human Services.

(Department of Health and Human Services, NCI Dictionary)

Also called Department of Health and Human Services.

(DHHS, NCI Dictionary)