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Habilitation [SCOPE NOTE: Establishment of fundamental capabilities, knowledge, experiences, and attitudes before or along with the usual rehabilitation procedures; includes process of providing specific learning experiences for those persons with physical or mental disabilities who have been isolated from such experiences, so they can become aware of and develop their potential]
Related Terms: Academic achievement, Daily living, Deinstitutionalization, Rehabilitation
Halfway houses [SCOPE NOTE: Community-based facilities which provide housing and supportive services as a midpoint between institutional living and living in the community]
Broader Terms: Facilities, Housing, Living facilities
Related Terms: Community centers, Community living, Deinstitutionalization, Foster care, Group homes, Independent living, Residential living
Handbooks [SCOPE NOTE: Concise reference books covering particular subjects]
Broader Terms: Information resources
Related Terms: Access guides, Instructional materials, Training materials
Use for: Almanacs, Guides, Manuals
Handicapped employees
Use: Workers with disabilities
Hansens disease
Use: Leprosy
Head injuries
Use: Brain injuries
Health care [SCOPE NOTE: Includes health services, comprehensive health care, private and governmental programs and services, public health, and medical care]
Broader Terms: Managed care
Related Terms: HMO, Life care planning, Medical aspects, Medical treatment, Mental health, Nutrition, Prevention, Reform, Surgery
Use for: Access to care, Health services, Medical care, Primary care, Subacute care, System of care
Health care reform
Use: Reform
Health education
Use: Patient education, Professional education
Health insurance [SCOPE NOTE: Insurance from a private carrier covering accident or injury; term added June 1989]
Broader Terms: Insurance
Related Terms: Disability insurance, Managed care
Use for: Reimbursement
Health maintenance
Use: Health promotion
Health maintenance organizations
Use: HMO
Health personnel [SCOPE NOTE: Individuals employed in the health services and medical fields]
Narrower terms: Medical personnel, Physicians
Broader Terms: Personnel
Related Terms: Certification, Counselors, Dentistry, Manpower, Medicine, Nursing, Occupational therapy, Physical therapy, Therapy
Use for: Allied health personnel
Health promotion
Related Terms: Disability management
Use for: Health maintenance, Public health model, Wellness
Health services
Use: Health care
Health statistics [SCOPE NOTE: Usually disease related statistics, not used for employment or general client statistics]
Broader Terms: Statistics
Related Terms: Demographics, Epidemiology, Incidence, Prevalence
Hearing
Use: Audiology
Hearing aids [SCOPE NOTE: Any of various types of mechanical or electric devices carried in or close to the outer ear in order to improve hearing]
Broader Terms: Communication devices, Devices, Sensory aids
Related Terms: Audiology, Hearing impairments, TDD
Hearing impairments [SCOPE NOTE: Includes hard of hearing, hearing loss, partial deafness; for documents primarily about people who are totally deaf, use DEAF or DEAFNESS]
Narrower terms: Deaf, Deaf blind
Broader Terms: Disabilities
Related Terms: Audiology, Audiometry, Communication devices, Communication skills, Hearing aids, Sensory aids, Speech impairments, TDD
Use for: Communication disorders, Hyperalgesia, Non vocal, Tinnitus
Heart disorders
Use: Cardiac disorders
Hemiplegia [SCOPE NOTE: Paralysis of one lateral half of the body or part of it resulting from injury to the motor centers of the opposite side of the brain]
Broader Terms: Paralysis
Related Terms: Brain injuries, Neurological disorders, Paraplegia, Quadriplegia, Spinal cord injuries, Stroke
Hemophilia [SCOPE NOTE: Hereditary blood disorder characterized by delayed clotting of the blood, causing abnormal bleeding]
Broader Terms: Blood disorders
Related Terms: Genetics
Herbal treatments
Use: Alternative medicine
Hidden disabilities
Use: Disabilities
High blood pressure
Use: Blood pressure
Hip
Use: Joints
Hiring practices [SCOPE NOTE: Includes applicant interviews]
Narrower terms: Affirmative action
Related Terms: Employment
Use for: Quota systems, Recruitment
Histology [SCOPE NOTE: Study of the microscopic structure of tissues; term added June 1989]
Broader Terms: Medicine
Related Terms: Biochemistry
History [SCOPE NOTE: Used for documents written from a historical approach, such as history of treatment of disease, historical background of rehabilitation or services]
Related Terms: Disability studies, Philosophy
HIV [SCOPE NOTE: Term added April 1988]
Broader Terms: Autoimmune disorders
Related Terms: Sexually transmitted diseases, Substance abuse
Use for: AIDS, AIDS related complex, ARC, Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Human Immunodeficiency Virus
HMO [SCOPE NOTE: Providers of a specific range of medical care services to enrolled members on a prepaid basis; consumers are limited to the services availabe from the health care providers who are members of the organization]
Broader Terms: Managed care
Related Terms: Health care
Use for: Health maintenance organizations
Holism [SCOPE NOTE: Consideration of a person as a whole rather than as individual parts; taking into account the mental and spiritual aspects of a person as well as the physical; term added April 1988]
Narrower terms: Alternative medicine
Use for: Holistic, System of care
Holistic
Use: Holism
Home based [SCOPE NOTE: People who remain in the home for physical, emotional, or geographic reasons; includes programs for clients unable to leave their homes, shut-ins]
Related Terms: Homemakers, Mobile facilities
Home care [SCOPE NOTE: Health and personal care of persons with disabilities provided in the home environment, usually by family members; an alternative to institutionalization]
Related Terms: Caregivers, Deinstitutionalization
Use for: Caregiving
Home economics [SCOPE NOTE: Theory and practice of homemaking]
Related Terms: Homemakers, Nutrition
Home furnishings
Use: Furniture
Home modification [SCOPE NOTE: Modification of residences to accomodate the needs of persons with disabilities]
Related Terms: Accommodation, Architectural accessibility, Bathrooms, Environmental control systems, Housing, Job modification, Rehabilitation engineering, Universal design
Homeless [SCOPE NOTE: Individuals without fixed residences; term added June1989]
Related Terms: Poverty
Homemakers [SCOPE NOTE: Includes training persons with disabilities in skills needed to do the tasks of caring for a home, such as home maintenance, laundry, and cleaning]
Related Terms: Child care, Daily living, Home based, Home economics
Use for: Housekeeping
Homosexuality
Broader Terms: Sexuality
Horticulture [SCOPE NOTE: Science and art of growing fruits, vegetables,flowers, and ornamental plants; includes florists, flower arranging, and growing]
Related Terms: Agriculture
Use for: Farming, Gardening
Hospices [SCOPE NOTE: Includes care of the terminally ill; centrally administered supportive services which provide physical, psychological, social, and spiritual care for dying persons and their families in the home or inpatient settings; includes bereavement services for the family]
Broader Terms: Facilities
Related Terms: Death, Hospitals, Nursing homes, Pain, Terminal illness
Hospitals [SCOPE NOTE: Includes materials about hospital-based facilities; for hospitalization, see appropriate treatment-related terms, such as MEDICAL TREATMENT]
Broader Terms: Facilities
Related Terms: Clinics, Hospices, Institutionalization, Long term care, Nursing homes, Terminal illness
Hotlines
Use: Information referral
Housekeeping
Use: Daily living, Homemakers
Housing [SCOPE NOTE: Includes individual housing needs]
Narrower terms: Group homes, Halfway houses, Nursing homes
Broader Terms: Facilities, Living facilities
Related Terms: Architectural accessibility, Architectural barriers, Architecture, Bathrooms, Community living, Foster care, Furniture, Home modification, Independent living, Residential living, Universal design
Human engineering
Use: Ergonomics
Human factors
Use: Ergonomics
Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Use: HIV
Human interest [SCOPE NOTE: Personal descriptions or accounts of persons with disabilities]
Related Terms: Rehabilitation success
Human motion
Use: Body movement, Motor skills
Human relations
Use: Interpersonal relations
Human services
Use: Social services
Humor
Use: Adjustment
Huntington disease
Broader Terms: Neurological disorders
Use for: Chronic chorea
Husbands
Use: Spouses
Hygiene
Use: Daily living, Grooming
Hyperalgesia
Use: Hearing impairments, Pain
Hypertension
Use: Blood pressure
