Example sentences of "the [noun sg] health organization " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has become the drug of choice for the American armed forces and for the World Health Organization , and has survived against the threat of resistant strains for a surprisingly long time . |
| 2 | The World Health Organization took over the administration of this agreement in 1947 , and has continued , since then , to advise on suitable antibiotics for treatment , and methods to be used in the blood tests for syphilis . |
| 3 | In 1971 following recommendations from both the World Health Organization and the International Union against the Venereal Diseases and Treponematoses ( IUVDT ) , a travelling seminar of experts from all over the world was convened to examine the service for sexually transmitted diseases in the United States , the training of the medical personnel and undergraduates , and to suggest ways in which these could be improved . |
| 4 | Following an intensive campaign by the World Health Organization , when mass injections of penicillin were given to everyone at risk , this form of syphilis has been eradicated in Yugoslavia . |
| 5 | At international level , the International Labour Organization ( ILO ) and the World Health Organization ( WHO ) collaborate to produce various recommendations which seek to establish worldwide standards of safety with the purpose of preventing avoidable accidents at work . |
| 6 | However , an increasing number of countries are committing themselves to the goal of immunising 80% of their children by 1990 under the World Health Organization 's Extended Programme on Immunisation ( EPI ) . |
| 7 | Incidence of infection in each country is notified to the World Health Organization so that necessary strategies can be implemented to prevent spread to other countries by travellers , cargoes and animals . |
| 8 | The World Health Organization has recognized alcoholism as a disease since 1951 , and the American Medical Association for nearly as long , but in a recent court case the US Government argued that alcoholism results from excessive drinking ‘ chosen freely ’ . |
| 9 | A useful minimal definition is that given by the World Health Organization that ‘ Health is a state of complete mental , physical and social well-being , and not merely the absence of disease . ’ |
| 10 | So it is used here in the wider sense defined by the World Health Organization as a ‘ complete physical , mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity ’ . |
| 11 | Although there is no consensus on the causes of inequality on health , their eradication is a policy common to the United Kingdom and the 33 other members of the European Region of the World Health Organization ( WHO ) . |
| 12 | In the United States , Margaret Ribble ( 1943 ) published The Rights of Infants ; in England John Bowlby ( 1952 ) followed up his earlier studies of maternal deprivation as an antecedent of what he had called ‘ the affectionless character ’ ( 1946 ) with his report for the World Health Organization , Maternal Care and Mental Health ; and in the opening volume of the journal Psycho-Analytic Study of the Child , Rene Spitz ( 1945 ) published his paper on hospitalized infants and the effects of lack of mothering , and supported this with the widely circulated documentary film , Grief : a Peril in Infancy . |
| 13 | Current attitudes have been shaped by the influential report to the World Health Organization , by John Bowlby ( 1953 , Child Care and the Growth of Love , Harmondsworth : Penguin ) in which the ‘ maternal deprivation hypothesis ’ was introduced to explain the apparent retardation and emotional disturbance suffered by children in residential care . |
| 14 | The World Health Organization at the Alma Ata Conference in 1978 set forth the importance of community participation in primary health care . |
| 15 | The quality of drinking water in some parts of the UK does not satisfy the World Health Organization guidelines , particularly with regard to level of lead and nitrates . |
| 16 | During the 1970s , knowledge of stratospheric chemistry improved considerably and this led to some radical rethinking of the effect of oxides of nitrogen on the ozone layer , as illustrated by the World Health Organization statements concerning the potential effect of aircraft emissions . |
| 17 | However , in 1982 , the World Health Organization stated that there was little likelihood of a significant change in the ozone layer in this century as a result of changing agricultural practices , but that the topic requires further study because of possible long-term effects ( Hulm , 1982 ) . |
| 18 | The World Health Organization ( WHO ) collaborative studies in the early 1970s and , later , the World Fertility Survey ( WFS ) also widely documented that , in developing countries , too , maternal age has a considerable effect upon the probability that a child will survive infancy and the age of five years . |
| 19 | As of 11th November 1987 , 64,488 AIDS cases were officially reported to the World Health Organization ( WHO ) from 127 countries . |
| 20 | According to the World Health Organization it may soon be possible for these disorders to be controlled or even eliminated — but since there is no cure , this can only mean by early detection in the fetus and abortion . |
| 21 | The World Health Organization ( WHO ) is committed to a policy of ‘ Mental Health for All by the Year 2000 ’ . |
| 22 | Global organizations like the World Health Organization ( WHO ) are dominated by Western medical science , and their work on mental health by psychiatric medicine . |
| 23 | Nations concerned with it , the World Health Organization ( WHO ) spreads the gospel according to Western psychiatry . |
| 24 | Produced by Canada 's National Film Board and the Toronto-based Street Kids International , in consultation with the World Health Organization and UNICEF , the video is already being used by health educators and street workers in Kenya , Ethiopia , Egypt , the Philippines and more than two dozen other countries . |
| 25 | Produced by Canada 's National Film Board and the Toronto-based Street Kids International , in consultation with the World Health Organization and UNICEF , the video is already being used by health educators and street workers in Kenya , Ethiopia , Egypt , the Philippines and more than two dozen other countries . |
| 26 | The World Health Organization and the Norwegian Agency for National Development are providing the initial financial backing , but |
| 27 | Jonathan Mann , director of the World Health Organization 's global programme on AIDS , which he founded in 1986 and which had an annual budget of over US$100,000,000 , announced his resignation on March 16 , citing disagreements with the WHO Director-General , Hiroshi Nakajima . |
| 28 | Delegates representing the 167 member states of the World Health Organization ( WHO ) met for the 43rd World Health Assembly in Geneva on May 7-18 to consider the biennial report of the Director-General , Hiroshi Nakajima . |
| 29 | On April 30 Namibia was also formally admitted as a full member of the World Health Organization ( WHO ) , of which it had previously been an associate member . |
| 30 | The World Health Organization postpones consideration of Palestinian membership . |