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H
the building letter code for Hunters Point, 830 Palou, San Francisco

health care providers
health professionals, such as physicians, pharmacists, registered nurses, nurse practitioners, and dentists, who provide patient care

health delivery
direct delivery of health care to patients

health policy
plans and actions of government and other organizations designed to maintain and improve public health

health policy researchers
researchers who investigate health policy-related questions

HSE
the building letter code for the Health Sciences Instruction and Research East Tower, on the UCSF Parnassus campus

HSW
the building letter code for the Health Sciences Instruction and Research West Tower, on the UCSF Parnassus campus

Human Genome Project
national effort coordinated by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Institutes of Health to identify all the approximately 100,000 genes in human DNA, determine the sequences of the 3 billion chemical bases that make up DNA, store this information in databases, develop tools for data analysis, and address the ethical, legal, and social issues that may arise from the project; to help achieve these goals, researchers are also studying the genetic makeup of several nonhuman organisms

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