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Human needs: Health benefits will accrue when human social and cultural needs are satisfied by access to wetlands. Health relates most easily to the direct survival requirements (a full spectrum of which includes water for food, water for drinking, cooking and eating, washing, cleaning, health and healthcare, and for waste removal and assimilation). Water is needed to generate income and material well-being, and access to it generates prestige and social identity, contributes to social cohesion, allows for recreation while providing an aesthetic opportunity, all embed- ded within moral, cultural and spiritual needs. Health products: Health benefits will accrue to soci- eties in general. | Your Guide to QUALITY CHOICES Quality tH lealth Care Health Plans Doctors Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality On December 6 1999 under Public Law 106-129 the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research AHCPR was reauthorized and renamed the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality AHRQ . The law authorizes AHRQ to continue its research on the cost quality and outcomes of health care and expands its role to address patient safety and medical errors. Visit our Web site at for more information about AHRQ. This guide was developed by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality AHRQ formerly the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research AHCPR in cooperation with other agencies of the . Department of Health and Human Services and other public- and private-sector health organizations. AHRQ is the lead Federal agency charged with sponsoring and conducting research on the quality and outcomes of health care services as well as the cost use and access to those services. For more information on AHRQ-sponsored research and products call 1-800-358-9295 or visit AHRQ s Web site at http . For information on resources available from the . Department of Health and Human Services visit the Department s gateway Web site http . Health care quality varies in this country a lot. For example some health plans and doctors simply do a better job than others of helping you stay healthy and getting you better if you are ill. Research shows that Americans want and value quality health care. And that s a good thing. Because when you make health care choices that offer the best possible care you are most likely to get the best possible results. So when it comes to making major health care decisions about health plans doctors treatments hospitals and long-term care how can you tell which choices offer quality health care and which do not Fortunately more and more public and private groups are working on ways to measure and report .