HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Dictionary entry overview: What does Health and Human Services mean?
• HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (noun)
The noun 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: HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES (noun)
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 ("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 "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)
