(n.) The state of being hale, sound, or whole, in body, mind, or soul; especially, the state of being free from physical disease or pain.
(n.) A wish of health and happiness, as in pledging a person in a toast.
Example Sentences:
(1) Indicators for evaluation and monitoring and outcome measures are described within the context of health service management to describe control measure output in terms of community effectiveness.
(2) This may have significant consequences for people’s health.” However, Prof Peter Weissberg, medical director of the British Heart Foundation, which funded the work, said medical journals could no longer be relied on to be unbiased.
(3) HSV I infection of the hand classically occurs in children with herpetic stomatitis and in health care workers infected during patient care delivery.
(4) Parents of subjects at the experimental school were visited at home by a community health worker who provided individualized information on dental services and preventive strategies.
(5) Handing Greater Manchester’s £6bn health and social care budget over to the city’s combined authority is the most exciting experiment in local government and the health service in decades – but the risks are huge.
(6) Consensual but rationally weak criteria devised to extract inferences of causality from such results confirm the generic inadequacy of epidemiology in this area, and are unable to provide definitive scientific support to the perceived mandate for public health action.
(7) There is no evidence that health-maintenance organizations reduce admissions in discretionary or "unnecessary" categories; instead, the data suggest lower admission rates across the board.
(8) A subsample of patients scoring over the recommended threshold (five or above) on the general health questionnaire were interviewed by the psychiatrist to compare the case detection of the general practitioner, an independent psychiatric assessment and the 28-item general health questionnaire at two different cut-off scores.
(9) Further development of drug formulary concept was discussed, primarily for the drugs paid by the Health Insurance, as well as the unsatisfactory ADR reporting in Yugoslavia.
(10) Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, who is also seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, recently proposed a bill that would ease the financial burden of prescription drugs on elderly Americans by allowing Medicare, the national social health insurance program, to negotiate with the pharmaceutical companies to keep prices down.
(11) The Department of Herd Health and Ambulatory Clinic of the Veterinary Faculty (State University of Utrecht, The Netherlands) has developed the VAMPP package for swine breeding farms.
(12) A tiny studio flat that has become a symbol of London's soaring property prices is to be investigated by planning, environmental health and fire safety authorities after the Guardian revealed details of its shoebox-like proportions.
(13) As important providers of health care education, nurses need to be fully informed of the research findings relevant to effective interventions designed to motivate health-related behavior change.
(14) Community involvement is a key element of the Primary Health Care (PHC) approach, and thus an essential topic on a course for managers of Primary Health Care programmes.
(15) In addition, congenital anemias such as sickle cell disease can impact on the health of the mother and fetus.
(16) Parents believed they should try to normalize their child's experiences, that interactions with health care professionals required negotiation and assertiveness, and that they needed some support person(s) outside of the family.
(17) Midtrimester abortion by the dilatation and evacuation (D&E) method has generated controversy among health care providers; many authorities insist that this procedure should be performed only by a small group of experts.
(18) The Department of Health referred questions to Monitor.
(19) The Hamilton-Wentworth regional health department was asked by one of its municipalities to determine whether the present water supply and sewage disposal methods used in a community without piped water and regional sewage disposal posed a threat to the health of its residents.
(20) The Pan American Health Organization, the Americas arm of the World Health Organization, estimated the deaths from Tuesday's magnitude 7 quake at between 50,000 and 100,000, but said that was a "huge guess".
Heath
Definition:
(n.) A low shrub (Erica, / Calluna, vulgaris), with minute evergreen leaves, and handsome clusters of pink flowers. It is used in Great Britain for brooms, thatch, beds for the poor, and for heating ovens. It is also called heather, and ling.
(n.) Also, any species of the genus Erica, of which several are European, and many more are South African, some of great beauty. See Illust. of Heather.
(n.) A place overgrown with heath; any cheerless tract of country overgrown with shrubs or coarse herbage.
Example Sentences:
(1) Some commentators have described his ship, now facing more delays after a decade in development, as little more than a Heath Robinson machine.
(2) Her unclothed remains were found six months later by mushroom pickers at Yateley Heath Woods, near Fleet, Hampshire, 25 miles away.
(3) 10.54am GMT Among other things, Heath’s measure would improve the transparency of the investigatory powers tribunal, which investigates complaints from members of the public made against the intelligence agencies MI5, MI6 and GCHQ .
(4) Both Prime Minister Harold Wilson and Tory leader Edward Heath had stayed on in the chamber to listen to him.
(5) He said he would not repeat the mistake of Edward Heath who in 1972, "two years into office, was faced with economic problems and over-powerful unions and buckled and gave up".
(6) Ted Heath remained in office over the weekend after the general election on 28 February 1974, despite winning four seats fewer than Labour, as he tried unsuccessfully to form a coalition with the Liberals.
(7) Likewise, Hippocrates, the father of western medicine, prescribed sun worship as a vital constituent of heath and had a solarium installed on the island of Kos.
(8) He is a regular panellist on comedy news quizzes, and reaches for Wodehouse in depicting 70s foreign secretary Lord Home "playing Lord Emsworth to Heath's Empress of Blandings".
(9) A demoralised workforce performs less efficiently, and a less-efficient system can be broken up and sold to private firms.” The Department of Heath insists these fears are misplaced.
(10) Osborne expressed the same sort of sentiments on Thursday, although it appears he used a private breakfast with 30 business leaders to deliver a bit of a pep talk rather than a Heath-style tirade at business ingratitude.
(11) The Liberal party rebelled against getting into bed with the Tories, Heath was forced to call for the removal vans and was subsequently sacked as Conservative leader.
(12) With the backing of the Met's then commissioner, Sir (now Lord) Paul Condon, warrants were obtained for the planting of listening devices in Southern's offices in Thornton Heath, south west London.
(13) Over the course of a month between 30 May and 30 June, he visited cash machines at Barclays, the Post Office, Tesco, Morrisons, TSB and Nationwide in Small Heath, Sparkbrook and Yardley Wood.
(14) Of course, after Hitler got into power and Low started, beautifully, to take the piss, Low, along with his cartooning colleagues Illingworth, Vicky and even Heath Robinson, was placed on the Gestapo's deathlist.
(15) "I was obviously, having worked with Ted Heath, committed to Europe.
(16) Burnham, the shadow heath secretary, received 68 nominations from MPs, mainly from the north.
(17) It was provoked by the government in order to take revenge for the 1972 and 1974 miners' strikes, which destroyed the Heath government's incomes policy and brought it down.
(18) Saleem, 82, was killed on 29 April, as he walked from a mosque to his home in Small Heath just after 10pm.
(19) A central issue is to establish why five "conditioning techniques" – hooding, stress positions, sleep deprivation, food and water deprivation, and white noise – inflicted on IRA suspects and banned in 1972 by the then prime minister, Edward Heath, were used on Iraqi detainees.
(20) In this, Dalgliesh investigates a killing in a privately run crime museum on the edge of Hampstead Heath, London.