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

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1 MIDDLESBROUGH council formally approved spending £50,000 to develop a health suite at the town 's Southlands Leisure Centre , despite objections from minority party members .
2 Ali knew the importance of a clean farewell , not only as a health measure , but as good commercial sense .
3 These include his referring to the advertising ban as a ‘ totalitarian step ’ , casting doubt on the ban as a health measure .
4 ( f ) To support family planning as a health measure in maternal and child health programmes as a way of reducing births that occur too early or too late in the mother 's life , of increasing the interval between births and of diminishing higher birth orders , and by giving special consideration to the needs of those in the postpartum and/or breast-feeding period ;
5 This is clearly a crucial element in the battery of skills which a health system needs and in some areas like surgery and acute care there is less immediate possibility of a CD approach to health .
6 The phrase commonly used as a criteria for judging developments is ‘ are they pro-people ’ , the aim being to build a health system in which people really matter .
7 We can not afford to have failures in a health system which needs to use every hospital and every health care worker if it is to cope with the demands of the twenty first century .
8 A Health Studies Directorate , charged with developing health VFM topics , has been established .
9 TWO Ashington schools have benefited from a green scheme run by students on a health studies course at Northumberland College .
10 In the early seventies , the Swedes , worried by the startling increase in the number of cases of gonorrhoea , launched a health education campaign featuring a ‘ flying condom ’ which could be seen on all the best hoardings , exhorting the general public to use a protective in all acts of sexual intercourse .
11 A girl on a health education course I once taught told me of someone she knew whose husband had died after six months of marriage .
12 You should certainly be prepared to learn , to master the intricacies of an unknown subject , whether it is unit trusts , central heating , a children 's charity or a health education issue .
13 For example , advertising may support a campaign to drink more lager with an in-pub promotion organized by the public relations team — or a health education advertising campaign aimed at children may be supported by a public relations programme of activities in schools .
14 AIDS AHEAD which was set up in 1987 to promote a health education programme and advice service for deaf people on the dangers of AIDS .
15 At the time of the survey 7 out of the 12 local authorities had a health education policy which they were prepared to share with us .
16 The importance of the local authority in taking the lead in the development of a health education policy is paramount .
17 Secondary schools in particular were much more likely to have a health education policy if one existed at Regional level .
18 For the first time there will be a nationally agreed curriculum which gives clear guidance on what should be included in a health education programme and indicates a progression across the stages .
19 Almost one-quarter of primary schools did not include smoking as a health education topic with children at P6/P7 .
20 The environmental organization had written to all the country 's general practitioners in January offering a health education poster and booklet .
21 The two main recommendations to meet these charges were , first to establish a Health Services Supervisory Board within the DHSS , chaired by the Secretary of State to strengthen policy direction of the NHS .
22 PUPILS at De La Salle RC School , Carr Lane in Liverpool , will tomorrow be awarded a certificate from a health charity to reward them for their hard work in fundraising .
23 Virginia Bottomley , a health minister , said many of the 3,000 people sleeping rough in the city might have stayed at home had they been given enough attention earlier .
24 He replaced a health minister who had been widely regarded as extremely successful in increasing access to health services through the introduction of Medicare .
25 The Youth Club of the Paris Commune as it was officially known , or the ‘ Paree ’ as its more irreverent members called it , was a gimcrack affair , cracked concrete and cheap plastic panels , tucked beside the inevitable block of flats , and a health centre , but it was well equipped : table tennis , television , a library , a concert room , a rather more substantial annexe for weight lifting , a hall which doubled up for meetings of the Free German Youth and dancing , and a comfortable lounge where one could buy coffee and soft drinks .
26 Mr Peter Joyce , prosecuting , said the offences came to light when the baby , who was not named in court , was taken to a health centre for treatment to an elbow injury inflicted by his father five days earlier .
27 Only last week ( British Medical Journal , vol 286 , p 765 ) there was an account of two young lassies in Australia who had turned up at a health centre feeling nauseous and generally out of sorts .
28 The people have worked together to construct a health centre ; a substantial whitewashed building , cool and clean .
29 On 9 August 1991 , Erdogan Kizilkaya was examined by a physician at a Health Centre authorized by the Ministry of Health of carry out forensic examinations .
30 From the outset the association adopted a holistic approach to health and development , the programme that they established included child care facilities , nutrition programmes , income-generating cooperatives , literacy and education programmes and a health centre which provides both curative and preventive and promotive care .
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