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GUSTO study
GUSTO (Growing Up in Singapore Towards healthy Outcomes) is Singapore's largest birth cohort study, recruiting about 1,450 pregnant women from 2009 to 2010 at KKH and NUH and following mother-child pairs to study early-life origins of metabolic and neurodevelopmental health.
Guy's Hospital
Guy's Hospital, London SE1: NHS teaching hospital founded 1721 by Thomas Guy, opened 1725 for "incurables", endowed £219,499; now part of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust with 400 beds and London's largest cancer care provider.
GYN-ART study
GYN-ART (NCT06306170) is an observational, single-site study at IRCCS San Raffaele, Milan, evaluating toxicity and survival outcomes in 1,000 women with gynecologic cancer treated with IGRT, IMRT, or SBRT, distinct from the GynART 2011 EU funding effort.
Gynecologic Oncology Group
Gynecologic Oncology Group (GOG), also GOG Foundation, Inc.: American NCI cooperative group founded 1970 for gynecologic cancer trials; landmark trials GOG-33, GOG-111, GOG-0218, GOG-240; successor entities GOG Foundation and NRG Oncology.
Haiti cholera outbreak
The 2010–2019 Haiti cholera outbreak was Haiti's first cholera epidemic in a century, killing at least 9,789 people after UN peacekeepers' sewage contaminated a river.
HALT-C trial
HALT-C (Hepatitis C Antiviral Long-term Treatment against Cirrhosis) trial, a US NIH randomized trial testing low-dose maintenance peginterferon in prior interferon nonresponders with advanced hepatitis C fibrosis.
Hand sanitizer
Hand sanitizer (alcohol-based hand rub, ABHR) is a liquid, gel, or foam applied to hands to kill germs; CDC recommends at least 60% alcohol, formulation matters more than alcohol concentration, and it cannot remove C. difficile spores or chemicals.
Hand washing
Hand washing: cleaning hands with soap and water (hand hygiene, alongside alcohol-based hand rubs) to remove germs. CDC technique: 20 seconds scrubbing; reduces diarrhea 23-40%, respiratory illness 16-21%; only 19% globally wash with soap after toilet.
Hans Rosling
Hans Rosling (1948–2017), Swedish physician and Karolinska professor of international health; co-founded Gapminder, created Trendalyzer data visualizations, named konzo, gave famous TED talks, and wrote Factfulness.
Harbin Medical University
Harbin Medical University (哈尔滨医科大学, HMU) is a medical university in Harbin, China, founded in 1926 by Wu Liande and merged with the Red Army Medical School lineage; known for cardiovascular research and affiliated hospitals.
Harrison C. Spencer
Harrison C. Spencer, born Harrison Clark Spencer Jr., was an American malaria epidemiologist who led the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine and ASPPH.
Hayatabad Medical Complex
Hayatabad Medical Complex (HMC), Peshawar, a public tertiary care Medical Teaching Institution in Hayatabad, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan, with PGMI, IKD, PICO, and KGMC units, over 1,280 beds, and millions of patients treated yearly.
Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation
Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation: nonprofit US addiction and mental health treatment provider formed by the 2014 merger of Hazelden (1949) and the Betty Ford Center (1982), headquartered in Center City, Minnesota, serving 30,000+ patients yearly across 15 locations in nine states.
HCA Healthcare
HCA Healthcare (NYSE: HCA), formerly Hospital Corporation of America, is a Nashville-based for-profit hospital operator founded in 1968 by the Frists and Jack Massey; 190 hospitals, $75.6B 2025 revenue, largest US for-profit hospital chain.
HCHS study
The Hamburg City Health Study (HCHS) is a large cohort study by the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf following 45,000 Hamburg residents to find chronic disease risk factors.
HCHS/SOL study
HCHS/SOL (Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos) is the largest US longitudinal cohort study of Hispanic/Latino health: 16,415 adults aged 18–74 at Bronx, Chicago, Miami, and San Diego centers, baseline 2008–2011, with ancillary studies and genotyping.
HCSVD-TRC study
HCSVD-TRC (NCT06512376) is a Beijing Tiantan Hospital observational patient registry of hereditary cerebral small vessel disease, led by Yilong Wang, enrolling 100 gene-confirmed or suspected hCSVD patients for 5-year genetic, MRI, and clinical follow-up, 2022 to 2027.
HDacro trial
HDacro trial (NCT00461149), Federico II University Naples, Colao: 24-month open-label phase 4 study of octreotide-LAR dose escalation (20 to 40 mg q28d) as first-line acromegaly therapy, achieving 80.3% biochemical control and 68% tumor shrinkage.
Head Protective Devices
Head protective devices are helmets and hard hats that absorb impact energy to reduce head injury in military, industrial, road, and sport settings, spanning steel M1 combat helmets, ANSI Z89.1 and ISO 3873 industrial standards, and rotational-protection technologies like MIPS.
Health administration
Health administration: leadership and management of healthcare organizations by medical and health services managers (healthcare executives). Covers MHA/MBA/FACHE credentials, 640,400 US jobs at $123,860 median pay, 15–30% administrative cost share, and multi-payer versus single-payer differences.
Health and human rights
Health and human rights: interdisciplinary field linking health and human rights law, rooted in ICESCR Article 12 and General Comment 14, launched by Jonathan Mann and the journal Health and Human Rights (1994).
Health and Safety Executive
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is Britain's national regulator for workplace health and safety, formed on 1 January 1975 under the Health and Safety at Work Act.
Health Canada
Health Canada (Santé Canada), the federal health department established by 1996 legislation, regulates drugs, medical devices, food, pesticides, tobacco, and consumer products and stewards the Canada Health Act within the Health Portfolio.
Health care
Health care: organized prevention, treatment, and management of disease within a health system. Covers universal health coverage, primary health care, Bismarck-era origins, and Commonwealth Fund and OECD performance comparisons where the U.S. ranks last.
Health Care Costs
Health care costs are the actual expenses of providing health care services, including procedures, therapies, and medications. US national health spending reached $5.3 trillion in 2024.
Health care in Australia
Health care in Australia: a mixed public-private system built on Medicare, universal health insurance since 1984 (preceded by Medibank, 1975). Life expectancy 83 years; spending $7,469 per capita USD PPP, 10.3% of GDP; 200.3 million subsidised primary care services in 2024-25.
Health care in France
Health care in France: universal statutory health insurance (SHI, PUMa since 2016) covering all legal residents, funded by payroll taxes, CSG, and taxes, supplemented by complementary insurance (96% coverage), with high spending, medical deserts, and workforce shortages as main challenges.
Health Care Reform
Health care reform is the critical review and modification of a health system, reorganizing delivery and insurance to serve the uninsured, elderly, and indigent; the Affordable Care Act of 2010 is the major U.S. example.
Health care system in Japan
Japan's health care system: universal mandatory public insurance (Employees' Health Insurance, National Health Insurance) since 1961, uniform national fee schedule, 10-30% coinsurance, plus Long-Term Care Insurance since 2000; 10.7% of GDP spending, no GP gatekeeping.
Health Care, Failure to Rescue
Failure to rescue (FTR), also failure-to-rescue, a healthcare quality measure defined as death after a postoperative complication, introduced by Silber in 1992; linked to nursing staffing, ICU capacity, teaching status, and hospital size.