Example sentences of "health standards " in BNC.
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| 1 | At home , improvements in urban sanitation and hygiene in hospitals were gradually raising health standards . |
| 2 | We will ensure that comparative information about the health standards achieved by health authorities is available to the public . |
| 3 | The industrial revolution changed the scene dramatically and animals for transport gave way to horses kept for sport and pleasure while the success of veterinary surgeons in raising the health standards of agricultural animals ensured that their services would remain in demand . |
| 4 | However Roger Nourish says that setting health standards would be very difficult . |
| 5 | THE number of fat people is rising and Britons must radically change their diet if they are to meet Government health standards by the end of the century , a nutritionist said yesterday . |
| 6 | They often receive very unsympathetic treatment from the suppliers , whose principal and only concern is to supply water which complies with medical health standards and nothing more . |
| 7 | In the last quarter of the 20th century , the USSR may be just about the only country in the world where health standards are actually falling . |
| 8 | Health standards have risen in society at large . |
| 9 | It recommends a complaints commission under the jurisdiction of an independent statutory health standards inspectorate . |
| 10 | ( 1988 ) , who identified close links between health standards and levels of material prosperity . |
| 11 | The Guild wants the Government to introduce a set of practical guidelines for all nutritional and health standards of meals served in our schools and hospitals . |
| 12 | Primary or public health standards were aimed at protecting the most susceptible part of the population from adverse effects , with an adequate margin of safety being included , while the more stringent secondary standards were aimed at protecting public welfare , such as damage to vegetation , wildlife , materials , and so on . |
| 13 | Doctors also marched : they knew that the new [ unemployment benefit ] scales meant increased difficulties for them in their desperate efforts to protect the health standards of the people against the ravages of poverty . |
| 14 | It is noteworthy that the health and demographic consequences of early marriage or union of females differ in developed and developing countries , mainly because , in the former , contraceptive knowledge and practice are more prevalent and health standards are superior . |
| 15 | Conditions of development , including general health standards , may play a role , but data that would aptly verify or refute this are not available . |
| 16 | As a rule , large cities , especially the principal metropolises , have the largest per capita supply of trained medical personnel , the more modern health facilities , a more adequate supply of medicines , and better communication and transportation facilities , all of which support higher health standards . |
| 17 | On two days out of three in 1988 the air exceeded national health standards . |
| 18 | The summit called for rapid completion or progress as regards investment services and insurance , intellectual property , takeovers , the liberalization of road transport as called for in a Dutch memorandum , the harmonization of animal and plant health standards , and the adoption by the end of 1990 of new value added tax and excise duty arrangements and of guidelines on trans-European transport networks . |
| 19 | The reports revealed the serious and worsening situation in Russia 's environment and health standards . |
| 20 | Operate safely and to high health standards |
| 21 | Hence bureaucracies are more concerned with levels of activities ( e.g. hospital beds per thousand population , teacher-pupil ratios , expenditure on school books , expenditure on welfare provision , numbers of missiles and infantry divisions , the size of police forces or standards of accommodation in prisons ) , than with output , or rather outcomes , such as health standards , educational standards , defence capability or public safety . |
| 22 | This was recently highlighted by the BSE ( mad cow disease ) scare where mutual recognition of health standards for food was called into question by some EC members . |
| 23 | Thirty per cent of the drinking water in Uzbekistan fails to meet minimum health standards , largely as a result of contamination by industrial waste . |
| 24 | ‘ We still have the public health standards but for us to meet EC requirements we would really have to start afresh . |
| 25 | He added : ‘ We have two groups of politicians saying different things about why health standards are poorer in some areas than others . |
| 26 | The borough council is to visit up to 1,500 business premises in the town to check safety and health standards . |
| 27 | He was being questioned about Glasgow 's declining health standards by worried councillors . |