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Comprised of 11 agencies, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) works to provide essential human services for the overall health of the American people. The 11 agencies that make up HHS execute a multitude of tasks and services: conducting research; ensuring public health, food and drug safety; offering grants and other funding, health insurance, and many others. In addition, HHS programs provide treatment of beneficiaries nationwide while enabling the collection of national health and other data.
The Department of HHS works in tandem with state and local governments, managing a budget of $911 billion in outlays for the 2011 fiscal year. Services and products contracted yearly among the multiple agencies under HHS include: data collection; research and policy studies; consultants; economic and cost-related analyses; medical training and demonstration projects; studies of occupational hazards; animal feed; chemicals; laboratory glassware; animals for research; construction and renovation projects; gas masks; respiratory equipment; air sampling services; heat and humidity sensors; office and laboratory furniture, equipment and supplies; pharmaceutical drugs and intravenous solutions; X-ray equipment; sanitation projects and Microfilm and other forms of graphic image storage.
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