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

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 By late February the Health Ministry claimed to have brought under control a cholera epidemic in which an estimated 150 people had died .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 Jeremiah Nyagah , hitherto Minister of Livestock Development , was moved to the Health Ministry to replace Mwai Kibaki ; the new Minister of Livestock Development was James Kabingu Muregi .
10 The Health Ministry subsequently claimed that 160 shipments of medicines and medical equipment , paid for before Aug. 2 , 1990 ( the date of Iraq 's invasion of Kuwait ) , were detained at foreign ports .
11 On July 25-26 they moved into the building in Karantina , Beirut , which had formerly housed the Health Ministry but which during the civil war had become the headquarters of the LF .
12 Haemophiliacs will feel that their plight has been acknowledged ; the health ministry and pharmaceutical companies will admit accountability ; structural integrity will be preserved .
13 % Montevideo , the capital of Uruguay , is suffering serious acid-rain pollution , according to a survey by the health ministry .
14 Liberal Raffaele Costa was promoted to the health ministry .
15 But the health bill admits to a permanent increase , estimated to be 3,000 , in the number of specialist staff in hospitals , including finance , personnel and information technology staff .
16 This increase reflected progress in the health sector — particularly Rhône-Poulenc Rorer — as well as in the speciality chemical and agrochemical divisions .
17 In a country where anything so conspicuous as reducing food subsidies courts trouble , cut backs in the health sector may seem a safer bet ( in 1977 7.7 per cent of GNP was devoted to health care , down from 9.5 per cent in 1955 ; in comparison , proportions in the United States over the same period rose from 8 per cent to 11 per cent ) .
18 Other health care professionals and scientists working in the health sector also have an important role .
19 The health sector provides community nursing , long-stay care and day hospital places as well as acute beds .
20 It would appear that access to the health service is reasonably equitable between men and women , and that women 's longer lives should not be attributed to prejudice against men in the health sector !
21 There is within the health sector and the popular movement as a whole a conscious and structured effort to involve as many as possible in the movement for change .
22 A variety of organizations have grown within the health sector that relate to both the struggles of its members and to the broader national struggle .
23 Despite these losses the organization did not cease to function and today remains the most comprehensive voice of protest within the health sector against what ails Philippine society .
24 Like other sections of the popular movement the health sector has been years in the growing and in establishing work practice and vital organizations .
25 Another important aspect for me was to recognize that the health sector needed to be allied with the most significant political forces working for the kind of changes that would help ensure healthy public policy .
26 These are exemplified in the health sector by gleaming tertiary care and research institutes in major cities such as Sao Paulo and poorly equipped or absent health posts in the ubiquitous shanty towns ( favelas ) .
27 The Conference adopted two recommendations that call attention to the fact that the health sector is not the only one that should be concerned with mortality and that , in addition to primary health care , there are other factors that tend to reduce mortality and enhance health of mothers and children .
28 It is strongly urged , therefore , that governmental action in the area of mortality and health should go beyond the health sector and involve all relevant sectors of national and community development . "
29 This visiting party comprises of individuals who work in the Health Sector and have a particular interest in Community Care .
30 This policy announcement , which was designed to curb heavy state spending in the health sector , had been made possible by the strong growth of medical aid schemes in all communities [ see above for plan to desegregate some state hospitals ] .
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