health and human services

Questions about health and human services

What does health and human services mean?

health and human services means "the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with health and welfare; created in 1979".

What is another word for health and human services?

Close synonyms include Department of Health and Human Services, HHS. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is health and human services a common word?

health and human services is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.