Skip to main content

Search from vocabulary

Content language

Concept information

... > social science subjects > health and social care > global health > society and health > National Institutes of Health > National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Preferred term

National Institute of Child Health and Human Development  

Definition

  • The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD), one of the 27 institutes and centers of the federal government's National Institutes of Health (NIH) in Bethesda, Maryland, is the world's largest source of support for research on human development. With a budget in 2005 of $1.25 billion, it supports more than 2,000 grants and contracts for biomedical and behavioral research and training in maternal and child health, population and reproduction, and medical rehabilitation. [Source: Encyclopedia of Human Development; National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD)]

Belongs to group

URI

https://concepts.sagepub.com/social-science/concept/National_Institute_of_Child_Health_and_Human_Development

Download this concept: