Example sentences of "[verb] the health " in BNC.

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1 But since the changes do not occur simultaneously throughout the population there are likely to be found , at any given time , differences among population sub-groups in exogenous conditions that influence the health and mortality of very young children .
2 By a notice of appeal dated 20 May 1992 the health authority appealed on the grounds that ( 1 ) the court had no jurisdiction to grant a mandatory injunction requiring a health authority to cause specified medical treatment to be given , alternatively , no jurisdiction to order it to cause such treatment to be given against the professional judgment of its servants or agents ; ( 2 ) the judge had erred in holding that he was not bound by the decision in In re J. ( A Minor ) ( Wardship : Medical Treatment ) [ 1991 ] Fam. 33 to hold that there was no such jurisdiction ; ( 3 ) there had been no material before the court to justify the judge granting a mandatory interlocutory injunction since ( a ) there was no evidence that the health authority owed J. any enforceable duty to provide the ordered treatment , or that such treatment would be in his best interests ; ( b ) there was uncontradicted evidence before the court that the treatment ordered would be painful and ineffective to give J. a prospect of long term survival and ( c ) there was no material establishing that there was a reasonable or any prospect of a final order being granted in the terms of the interlocutory order ; ( 4 ) if the court had jurisdiction to make the order the judge erred in the exercise of his discretion in that ( a ) he had failed to give sufficient weight to the uncontradicted medical evidence or to the undesirability of seeking to force a doctor to act against his professional judgment and/or requiring the employer of the doctor to do so , ( b ) he had failed to consider that the order was capable of interfering with the health authority 's duty to care for other patients , and ( c ) by its terms the order was too imprecise to enable the health authority to be able to ascertain how it should be complied with .
3 Managing director Prabhdyal Sodhi told the hearing Dixon conspired to alert the health authority rather than go through the proper channels and complain to management .
4 They are needed to help along important steps in the body 's metabolism , influencing growth , producing energy , controlling hormones , helping resistance to infection , and maintaining the health of all the tissues in the body .
5 Mrs Shephard told farmers in her native Norfolk : ‘ Farming is a major industry whose importance to maintaining the health of rural life , both for those who work in the countryside and those who visit it is all too easily forgotten .
6 Mrs Shephard told farmers in her native Norfolk : ‘ Farming is a major industry whose importance to maintaining the health of rural life , both for those who work in the country- side and those who enjoy it as an amenity , is all too easily forgotten .
7 Clearly this is an attempt to impose a national screening and surveillance programme to monitor the health of older people .
8 A Norwegian company has developed a comprehensive surveillance system to monitor the health of the North Sea .
9 Sugar was the revenge of the slaves , ravaging the health of the West .
10 The three remaining companies deny breaching the Health and Safety at Work Act .
11 Does he agree that the serious deterioration of air quality in London arises mainly from increasing vehicle movements and that the best course would therefore be to improve public transport , reduce the number of cars going through London and ensure cleaner fuels and cleaner burn to preserve the health of our children , who are suffering grievously because of the increasing levels of pollution in central London ?
12 We have noted just how difficult it is to implement PHC effectively because of administrative inaccessibility of the relevant populations whilst geographically the communities using the health facility may be very close .
13 Further information about claims for night visits in Berkshire and in England and Wales was obtained by using the health service indicators supplied to family health services authorities by the Department of Health .
14 Even if hospitals are shown to be overused , WHO policy assumes that the people using hospitals ‘ should ’ be using the health centres .
15 Population-based planning relating to identifying the needs of a population and ensuring these needs are met — generally to promote the health of a defined population — will be the province of Regional and District Health Authorities .
16 Nursery schools , however , were generally supported because they were designed only to promote the health and education of children ; their limited opening hours did not permit mothers to work .
17 The business interests of the group were consolidated in 1924 under the name of The Wellcome Foundation Limited and the Company aims of today still correspond very closely to those of its founders , namely the discovery , development , manufacture and sale of products to promote the health and hygiene of man and animals .
18 The mission statement of a health authority may be to promote the health and hygiene of the people in its catchment area .
19 We need to continue to promote the health and well-being of our community but the introduction of a millionaire 's card scheme will not work .
20 Advertising is a potent force in maintaining smoking as an apparently socially acceptable habit : it swamps the health education message , reinforces the habit for those already hooked and recruits new smokers , the great majority of whom start as children .
21 Systematic arrangements will be made to assess , provide for and review the health and social care needs of people with a mental illness who would benefit from support and treatment in the community ( Coventry )
22 Does the Minister not recognise the dangers of fragmenting the health service and destroying the planning framework ; the cost of ever-increasing bureaucracy ; the reduction in choice for the doctor ; the fear that this is a road that leads to a two-tier system in which money comes first and the Health Service is relegated to a safety-net , fallback provision ?
23 As for fragmenting the health service , that is not true .
24 Safety Too much ozone can damage the health — of you and your fish .
25 It can also damage the health of townspeople in the south , few of whom understand the risks associated with defrosting frozen food .
26 So were a group of medical general practitioners who claimed that changes in their contracts would seriously damage the health of patients .
27 Can the Minister justify the payment of more than £234,000 of public money to accountants , bureaucrats and consultants to prepare opting-out submissions when that money can be better used to reduce waiting lists or to make a donation to the appeal for the Royal hospital for sick children in Edinburgh instead of being used to propagate Tory party propaganda which is not wanted by the people of Scotland and which would damage the health service in Scotland ?
28 It commands no support and will damage the Health Service .
29 ‘ uncritical use of these statistics may seriously damage the health of the universities . ’
30 The proposals to do away with nationally negotiated pay and condition will damage the Health Service .
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