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

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1 They abolished 50 existing laws and 36 agencies involved in regulating foreign trade , to ( i ) lift all quotas on imports and exports ; ( ii ) end trade controls except those protecting health care , urban planning , competition policy and environmental protection ; ( iii ) phase out regulation on domestic production and prices ; ( iv ) allow employers to negotiate wages at company level rather than with national unions ; ( v ) abolish regulations covering labour contracts and business hours ; ( vi ) prevent professional bodies fixing fees nationally ; and ( vii ) phase out the controls of State Boards to regulate production and sale of such key products as beef , wine , sugar , cotton and tobacco .
2 The separation of responsibility for purchasing health care from that of providing health care .
3 Public health medicine and purchasing health care
4 The central proposals , ie that District Health Authorities should receive an allocation based on their population and should be responsible for providing or acquiring health care services to meet the needs of that population , are fundamentally Type I. However , there are several proposals in Working for patients which introduce elements of a Type II system into the activities of DHAs .
5 Congress refused to repeal the Taft-Hartley Act or to pass bills advocating health insurance , Federal aid to education , and fair employment practices ( the last a central measure in the battle for civil rights ) .
6 A new organisation is urging Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley to instigate a national education programme to end the myths and stereotypes surrounding mental health and community care .
7 Dr Davey , a senior lecturer in clinical pharmacology at Dundee University , stressed the centre would not be promoting health service cutbacks .
8 It is not possible to measure accurately the cost of meeting health care needs , the magnitude of health care needs , or their proxies , and then proxies of proxies , down the line .
9 Designing a proper health financing system will be a major challenge and the most important decision for guaranteeing health care for the entire population .
10 Abdel-Salem Mohammed Saeed , who had been acting Health Minister since August 1988 [ see p. 36566 ] , was appointed to the full post of Health Minister on July 13 , 1989 .
11 There are now many sociological studies of the disadvantages women face in particular situations , from problems in particular places of employment , to seeking health care , or trying to participate in party politics .
12 Children — Court 's inherent jurisdiction — Medical treatment — Profoundly handicapped baby suffering intermittent convulsions — Clinical decision precluding future resuscitation by mechanical ventilation — Order directing health authority to require adoption of such procedures pending full hearing — Whether mandatory injunctive relief appropriate
13 Citing health service expenditure and public-sector salaries as major problems , the article suggested that a further package of economic measures would be necessary to enable the government to keep within the targeted budget deficit .
14 Tetbury Hospital re-opened this week , confounding health service experts who decided 4 years ago , it should shut down .
15 And the interest generated from its sale of trust land near Richardson Hospital for a nursing home and residential development was funding health care outside Teesdale , he warned .
16 Health authorities will now start buying health care from a range of competing providers .
17 At local level , health authorities now have the task of buying health care with their local share of the National Health budget .
18 The survey of district managers — who are responsible for buying health care for the people in their area — by the National Association of Health Authorities and Trusts showed that : FEWER than half support the system of opt-out hospitals .
19 Well , er first of all , it 's a smaller er Authority , er the er meetings of the Authority area are of course er going to be in public , just as er always , and er I think probably the key er advantage is going to be the new emphasis that we 'll be able to place on buying health care services .
20 Restructuring health care provision in England : its spatial implications
21 Transmission of infection is occurring both among the young , who may not have been fully exposed to the health education of the mid-1980s , and in older age groups , who may have changed to unsafe sex practices after previously heeding health advice .
22 The long-term goals of this programme of research are to establish baseline data against which changes in behaviour can be assessed , to develop theories of behavioural change , to identify those behavioural processes which may serve as targets for intervention and to act as a resource for evaluating health education initiatives .
23 We will ensure access to clinics providing health promotion , counselling , family planning and screening services , particularly for cervical and breast cancer , and advice on maternity and child care .
24 The separation of responsibility for purchasing health care from that of providing health care .
25 They would do this by promoting a healthier population not requiring such frequent hospital admission , by providing health care in more appropriate settings and by freeing ‘ blocked ’ beds more rapidly .
26 ( an independent Christian charity providing health care for people with AIDS )
27 Helen Pearson , lecturer in medical education at the University of Leicester , has introduced a scheme whereby SIFT money ( service increment for teaching ; the additional resources provided by the NHS to help offset the extra costs of providing health care in a teaching hospital ) is allocated to hospital departments in proportion to the amount of actual teaching that students receive .
28 The most appropriate way of providing health care for older people within the hospital sector remains a point of contention .
29 The growing role of municipalities in providing health care means that there is bound to be more emphasis on primary care .
30 This paper argues that the search for an empirically based resource allocation formula of high precision in the name of promotion of equity is largely fruitless given the impossibility of measuring the true need for , and costs of , providing health care , especially with the limited data available .
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