Example sentences of "health [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 THE LATEST controversy over political interference in research surfaced when a Sunday newspaper reported that the Prime Minister had personally pulled the plug on Department of Health funding for a survey of sexual habits to help scientists to predict the spread of Aids .
2 Consultant paediatrician to Oxford Health Authority , Harvey Markovitch says under normal health funding , the money just is n't available .
3 The only thing that 's different with the branches is the health segment .
4 One concept which has been the focus of much debate in evaluating efficiency is that of the ‘ Quality Adjusted Life Year ’ or QALY developed by the health economist , Alan Williams .
5 That was the warning to the conference from Peter West , health economist with Touche Ross management consultants .
6 In 1985 an American health economist , Alain Enthoven , had published an influential critical analysis of the NHS .
7 The cost of each study was calculated with the advice of a health economist and a hospital finance officer .
8 A survey of 1,500 ILF clients by health economist Victoria Phillips found community care cost an average of £228 a week , compared with more than £44 for residential care .
9 Ten months after Edwina Currie raised the alarm as a health ministry Under-Secretary of State , researchers have not been idle .
10 Thailand 's health ministry says there are about 80,000 prostitutes in the country ; the police reckon there are at least eight times that number .
11 So , to get information about the effects of Chernobyl radiation on Ukrainians , the Ukrainian health ministry is reduced to begging Moscow for local medical statistics .
12 When the association , backed by the Chilean Health Ministry , requested the prohibition last week , the Chilean Boxing Federation immediately went to court to try to protect the world title fight between Chile 's Bernardo Mendoza and Luis Sosa of the Dominican Republic , reports El Cronista .
13 The measures range from renaming the health ministry the Department of Health and Community Care , with a Community Care Minister , to allocating the first tranche of extra resources to cut waiting lists .
14 Relations between the British company and the French Health Ministry have hit an all-time low after claims by the multinational that officials have for 15 months blocked a licence for Glaxo 's new migraine drug .
15 The French Health Ministry pays 30 per cent less for its products than most European countries , including Britain .
16 According to the Brazilian health ministry , 7 per cent of cases of haemorrhagic dengue are fatal .
17 A global effort to combat its spread has been mounted by health care staff , international groups , governments and top-level policymakers and in January 1988 , health ministers and/or colleagues from 148 countries ( representing 95% of the world 's population ) attended the World Summit of Ministers of Health on Programmes for AIDS Prevention in London , organised jointly by WHO and the UK Health Ministry .
18 The woman who died was a heavy smoker and the Family Planning Association here points out that the French health ministry had stressed the dangers to smokers .
19 In the new system the health ministry has sole federal responsibility for health care but will be less involved in the delivery of health care .
20 Two Spanish epidemiological surveys on the Guillain-Barré syndrome were presented at the scientific debate of the Spanish National Committee of Pharmacovigilance ( Madrid , health ministry , 30 January 1992 ) .
21 The health ministry could have ended the problem a long time ago — it 's one of the biggest scandals in public health at the moment .
22 According to Health Ministry figures , four people had been killed and 93 injured up to the time of the miners ' arrival on the scene .
23 By the end of the three days of what one eyewitness described as a " vigilante rampage " , the Health Ministry announced that six people were dead and 502 hospitalized , seven in a serious condition .
24 Under the legislation gene technology would be regulated by a new body , the Central Committee for Biological Safety , which would be responsible to the Health Ministry in Bonn .
25 Komlanvi Kloutse was appointed Minister of the newly created Trade and Transport Ministry while Ayissah Agbetra was appointed to head the new Public Health Ministry .
26 By late February the Health Ministry claimed to have brought under control a cholera epidemic in which an estimated 150 people had died .
27 Fujimori and Fisheries Minister Felix Canal had appeared on television and in public eating ceviche , the national dish of uncooked fish and seafood marinated in lime , despite claims by the Health Ministry and international medical organizations that raw fish was a major source of infection .
28 Meanwhile , Health Ministry officials said on April 13 that foreign aid had " been very insignificant so far " .
29 The Iraqi Health Ministry said on Aug. 26 that 14,333 children had died in the last year owing to the absence of medical supplies .
30 The effect of the strike was defused by a 6.5 per cent government pay offer made to teachers and civil servants on Oct. 22 , the promise of concessions to striking nurses ( who had been camping in front of the Health Ministry for three weeks ) , and a series of measures to end protests by farmers .
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