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

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1 Mr Major spoke out after Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley announced an independent — but non-public — investigation into the events at Grantham and Kesteven General Hospital between February and April 1991 .
2 THOSE who feel Lord Arran has little to say about agriculture must now change their opinion of the Minister who has also to look after health matters in the province .
3 The decline in gonorrhoea and other sexually transmitted diseases in the mid-1980s may have been due to safer sex practices after health education through the mass media and various other local activities .
4 Mr Michael Fallon MP and his Labour rival , Mr Alan Milburn , said it was important that Darlington kept control of its own hospital services after health unions expressed concern over what they feared could be a ‘ hidden agenda ’ of merger plans .
5 Work on the Yarm Road project began in October after Health Images was told there was not enough land left at the Memorial Hospital site for a private health centre .
6 Caviare withdrawn after health scare
7 The Act imposes a duty on all holders of health records , usually a hospital or GP , to disclose information on application by a patient .
8 Instead of health insurance which reimburses the costs of health care on an item-of-service basis , HMOs enrol customers for an annual fee and , in return , guarantee health care for that year .
9 These schemes may be divided into two : those advocating that the service provided by the NHS may best be improved by increasing its efficiency through the introduction of more commercial criteria ; and those claiming that the greatest improvements would come from changing the funding arrangements by introducing some form of health insurance .
10 Several firms such as BUPA specialize in this aspect of health insurance .
11 The curists still come , it seems , to drink , gargle or bathe in the baths at the top of the town , but since the end of the last war the cure has been democratized ; in an age of health insurance many can afford it who before could not , and contemporary spa-goers both demand less and live less expensively than their more frivolous predecessors .
12 A universal system of health insurance known as Medicare , funded from general taxation , was introduced in 1984 .
13 In addition , 2-year survival was not related to any sociodemographic characteristic such as sex , race , education , and type of health insurance ( all p>0.2 ) .
14 In the US , the set-up of health insurance companies that stand between consumers and the services they use encourages the profligate use of resources .
15 Available from Publications Secretary , Centre of Health Economics , University of York , York YO1 5DD .
16 The Office of Health Economics highlighted this very issue in Mental Handicap : Ways Forward , published in 1978 :
17 The Office of Health Economics observes that ‘ osteoporotic fractures in the elderly present a major health care and social problem which is largely preventable .
18 The Office of Health Economics suggest that the benefits to be gained from HRT ‘ are far in excess of any known risks associated with its use . ’
19 The professor is director of the Office of Health Economics , and has been ever since that admirable bureau was established in 1962 .
20 ‘ The report ‘ Born Too Soon ’ was published by the Office of Health Economics a body financed by the pharmaceutical industry , ’ said Phyllis Bowman , National Director of SPUC .
21 When I started out , nobody had heard of health economics ; now every provider unit in the health service wants one .
22 ( Professor Alan Maynard , Department of Health Economics , University of York. )
23 This study in the sociology of scientific knowledge investigates the ‘ rhetoric of application ’ surrounding the social science subdiscipline of health economics .
24 Following from a series of previous studies of knowledge producing communities , the research aims for detailed documentation and explanation of the variety of ways in which the ‘ practical utility ’ of health economics is portrayed and assessed .
25 Comparisons of the differences in the arguments about the practical effectiveness of health economics are made
26 Professor Teething-Smith is the Director of the Office of Health Economics at London .
27 And you in the Office of Health Economics handle this information ?
28 This will involve the integration of research in different disciplinary fields , and will draw on existing work , such as the study of health beliefs , to establish a theoretical framework for the understandings of social perceptions of pain .
29 The programme offers evening classes in courses not related to the job and a range of health services .
30 No one , for example , can take hold of twenty-five million pounds ' worth of health services and say that these , and these precisely , are owed to the fact of a prescription charge : you can not point to the beds , the treatments , the nurses and demonstrate that these would not individually have been provided , however undeniable the fact may be in general .
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