Accessibility
The extent to which information, services, technology, and environments can be perceived, understood, navigated, and used across human variation.
Professional glossary
Shared language for
complex health work.
Plain-language definitions used across this website. These are working professional definitions, not legal, regulatory, or clinical standards.
Clinical utility
The degree to which information or an intervention can improve a meaningful clinical decision or outcome.
Decision rights
Explicit authority for making, approving, escalating, and reviewing defined organizational decisions.
Equity
A commitment to identifying and addressing avoidable, unfair differences in access, experience, quality, and outcomes.
Genetic epidemiology
The study of how genetic factors and their interaction with environments contribute to health and disease in populations.
Genomic service pathway
The coordinated journey across eligibility, information, consent, collection, laboratory work, interpretation, results, counseling, referral, and follow-up.
Governance
The structures, responsibilities, standards, controls, and review processes through which decisions and risks are managed.
Health-system strategy
A coherent set of choices about outcomes, populations, services, capabilities, governance, resources, and performance.
Implementation science
The study and application of methods that support effective adoption, delivery, adaptation, and sustainability of evidence-informed practices.
Inclusive design
A design approach that includes diverse needs and lived expertise from the beginning rather than adding accommodations at the end.
Life-course approach
A perspective that considers how health opportunities and risks develop and interact across stages of life.
Logic model
A structured explanation connecting resources and activities with outputs, intermediate changes, outcomes, and longer-term value.
Operating model
The way capabilities, people, processes, decisions, technology, partners, governance, and measures work together to deliver strategy.
Population health
The health outcomes of a defined population and the distribution of those outcomes within it.
Precision health
The use of individual and population information to improve prevention, diagnosis, treatment, or service decisions with appropriate evidence and governance.
Preventive health
Actions and systems intended to reduce avoidable risk, identify problems earlier, and support better health before crisis occurs.
Public value
The health, equity, experience, trust, capacity, and economic value created for populations and institutions.
Readiness gate
A defined evidence threshold that must be met before an initiative advances, expands, changes, or stops.
Service blueprint
A representation connecting a participant’s journey with the people, processes, technology, data, partners, controls, and decisions that enable it.
Service pathway
The complete sequence through which people discover, access, receive, and continue or exit a service.
Shared decision-making
A process in which people and professionals consider evidence, uncertainty, preferences, and circumstances together.
Theory of change
An explicit account of how and why an intervention is expected to produce intended outcomes in a given context.
Transformation roadmap
A sequenced plan connecting strategic priorities with capabilities, initiatives, governance, measures, dependencies, and readiness.
Whole-system design
Design that accounts for the complete service, its institutional context, dependencies, incentives, risks, and participant experience.