department of health and human services

Noun department of health and human services has 1 sense

• department of health and human services(n = noun.group) health and human services, hhs - the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with health and welfare; created in 1979;
is a kind of executive department
has parts: fda, food and drug administration, cdc, center for disease control and prevention, phs, united states public health service, national institutes of health, nih