(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".
Infirmity
Definition:
(a.) The state of being infirm; feebleness; an imperfection or weakness; esp., an unsound, unhealthy, or debilitated state; a disease; a malady; as, infirmity of body or mind.
(a.) A personal frailty or failing; foible; eccentricity; a weakness or defect.
Example Sentences:
(1) The thrust of health care "solutions" in the press and in Congress focus on the infirm.
(2) Those allocated a diagnosis of dementia were most impaired and confused, and those living in specialist homes for the mentally infirm were more impaired than other residents.
(3) Photograph: Eamonn Mccabe I is for Italy He lived for many years in a mountain-top retreat in Ravello on the Amalfi coast until he became too infirm to cope with the hills.
(4) Anyone who is pregnant, breastfeeding or infirm should talk to a GP before taking the herb.
(5) The cell bodies of the AVCN did not seem altered infirming a rapid, direct or indirect, neurotoxic effect of the drug.
(6) This paper describes one of the first attempts at an economic evaluation of a community care initiative for elderly mentally infirm people and their carers.
(7) It appears to become more severe with advanced age and other infirmities, such as immobility.
(8) It was one of at least half a dozen such unionist experiments, with a variety of partners, which foundered on the rocks of the would-be partners' infirmity of purpose, fear, suspicion and disdain of this bizarre, arrogant, impetuous upstart.
(9) While the courts welcome Russian oligarchs whose disputes have nothing to do with this country, they close their doors to the cheated, the battered and the infirm from the native poor.
(10) Swing your gaze from the aged and infirm to your fit and healthy peers here and abroad embracing fascism and poor-bashing.
(11) Other factors included pre-existing locomotor disorder or mental infirmity, unmanageable incontinence of urine after catheterisation, and institutional disorientation.
(12) The increasing infirmity of the aged often associated with tiredness, dyspnea and dizziness even without treatment requires careful instruction of the patient about effects and side effects of the prescribed medication.
(13) 11.01am BST Lord Norman Tebbit , the Tory former cabinet minister, says he worries such a bill would bring great pressure on the old, infirm or disabled to consider ending their lives so as to not be a financial burden on others.
(14) If "pain" in the broad sense of the term lends itself to objective evaluation with difficulty, it is not the same with respect to infirmity.
(15) The results of one such arrangement where a geriatrician was involved in the weekly review of the elderly mentally infirm patients are described.
(16) The dual rating system eliminates the problem of declining knee scores associated with patient infirmity.
(17) Neurotic applicants for an infirmity-pension belong to the group of problem patients for attending general practitioners and specialists alike.
(18) Please do not let us remember only the sick and infirm.
(19) Yet every local authority in the land allows men like these as well as our sick, elderly and infirm to be left to the tender mercies of profiteers and cowboys.
(20) Now staff and volunteers hunched over the infirm, dispensing sips of water and fanning them with bits of cardboard.