noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a health club (=where you go to do physical exercise)
▪ The hotel has its own health club with saunas, solarium and work-out equipment.
a health hazard
▪ The rubbish needs to be removed before it becomes a health hazard.
a health outcome (=how healthy someone is after using a particular treatment, system etc)
▪ the assessment of health outcomes
a health resort
▪ We booked ourselves into a health resort for a weekend of pure indulgence.
a health warning (=a warning that something is bad for your health)
▪ All tobacco products must carry a health warning.
a health/medical centre (=where there are several doctors you can see for medical treatment)
▪ The village has a small school and a health centre.
a health/medical check
▪ People over 60 should have regular medical checks.
a health/medical clinic
▪ Test results from a health clinic are available in about three weeks.
a health/medical problem
▪ Have you ever suffered from any of these health problems?
a research/rescue/health etc worker
▪ Rescue workers searched the rubble all night looking for survivors.
an education/health/sports etc correspondent
▪ Here is our sports correspondent with all the details.
European Health Insurance Card
frail health
▪ her frail health
glowing with health
▪ She looked exceptionally well, glowing with health.
government health warning
hazardous to health
▪ The chemicals in paint can be hazardous to health.
health and fitness
▪ books about health and fitness
health and safety rules
▪ You should follow any health and safety rules which apply to your workplace.
health and safety (=things that are done to prevent people becoming ill or having accidents during an activity)
▪ The Agency’s function is to promote health and safety at work.
health and safety
▪ health and safety regulations
health benefits
▪ Just 30 minutes of moderate daily activity yields health benefits.
health care
▪ The government has put a lot more money into health care.
health care
▪ The government has promised wide-ranging health care for all.
health centre
health club
health conscious
▪ People are health conscious nowadays and careful about what they eat.
health farm
health food
health professional
health professionals (=doctors, nurses etc)
▪ health professionals
health scare
▪ a health scare
health service
▪ reforms to the health service
health spa
health tourism
health visitor
health/medical insurance
▪ None of her family have private health insurance.
health/welfare/education expenditure (=money that a government spends on providing health services, welfare, or education)
▪ There has been a steady rise in welfare expenditure.
human health
▪ Toxic waste is a risk to human health and the environment.
in the best of health
▪ He hasn’t been in the best of health lately.
medical/hospital/health etc records
▪ The hospital could not find my mother’s medical records.
▪ Patients’ hospital records are kept on a database.
mental health
▪ Stress has an effect on both your physical and mental health.
National Health Service, the
nursed...back to health
▪ After Ray’s operation, Mrs Stallard nursed him back to health.
primary health care
public health
▪ a danger to public health
regain your strength/health
▪ First he must rest and regain his strength.
sb’s state of health
▪ The doctor said my general state of health was good.
the Department of Health/Trade/Education etc (=in a government)
▪ the U.S. Department of Agriculture
the health care system
▪ The West should be helping these countries to develop modern health care systems.
the health/business/money etc aspect
▪ the health aspects of chemical accidents
▪ I’m not very interested in the business aspect.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
environmental
▪ The nursery has closed down while environmental health officers try to find the source of the food poisoning.
▪ As usual, it is lagging behind on an environmental and health issue.
▪ Eventually, environmental health officers seized Mary Carruthers' stereo system and speakers after a petition from neighbours.
▪ This survey differs from previous ones in that the department brought in private surveyors to work with environmental health officers.
▪ And Northamptonshire's environmental health officers are backing up that message.
▪ Letters have been sent to scores of businesses which are subject to regular environmental health checks.
▪ Roussel Uclaf is to buy Wellcome's environmental health businesses for £43m.
▪ People holding loud parties or operating noisy machinery will be closely scrutinised by the council's environmental health officers.
good
▪ This demonstrates the difficulties in proving that higher expenditure leads to better health.
▪ We want better education, better roads, and better health care, for the same tax dollar.
▪ The fact is that we are contemplating not a two-tier health service but a better health service.
▪ But having good mental health and a good self-image are more important.
▪ The other seventy five percent remained in good health.
▪ They won three straight, reached their mid-season bye week at 4-4 and flowed with good health and rampant optimism.
▪ Anyone can start giving blood as long as they are between 18 and 60 years old and in good health.
▪ But at least it could be better for your health and wealth.
human
▪ The data that result are increasingly applied to the evaluation of environmental and epidemiological problems concerned with human and animal health.
▪ The tests are designed to ensure that the waste does not cause significant damage to marine wildlife or human health.
▪ The resultant changes in regional species composition have many consequences for human health.
▪ The docs' guesswork just goes to show how miraculously improbable human health really is.
▪ The convention establishes the principle that nothing that is harmful to human health and marine life can be dumped at sea.
▪ Chiron will have exclusive rights to develop and market any resulting compounds that can be used for human health.
▪ In addition, some packaging which comes into close contact with food has implications on human health and quality of food.
▪ We have always assumed that animal protein was the necessary kind for human health.
ill
▪ Thus, informal admissions were characterized by a combination of mental ill health and transgression of traditional social role expectations.
▪ There are a whole lot of senators in worse health than Strom Thurmond.
▪ Lord Hamlyn eventually broke cover himself, giving ill health as the explanation for his reticence.
▪ She was starting at zero as she had very poor schooling due to ill health.
▪ He suffered from ill health in 1840, and again in 1842 and 1844.
▪ There is an enormous cost in terms of both human tragedy and the economic implications, through days lost through sickness and ill health.
▪ The fifty nine year old singer who'd been dogged by ill health died at his home in Arbroath on Monday.
▪ He was sent in May 1900 to Uppingham, where, suffering from ill health, he stayed only two terms.
local
▪ Contact your local community health council by letter or telephone and ask to be put in touch with whoever is responsible for your area.
▪ Interested persons should call their local health department for information.
▪ The largest allocations went, in order of size, to education, public works, defence, local government and health.
▪ Like clockwork, she goes to the local health clinic every third month for three new cycles of free birth control pills.
▪ Cartwright found that the lower socio-economic groups made less use of such local health services as ante-natal clinics or family planning clinics.
▪ The Public Health Service, your local public health officials and your family physician will be able to help you.
▪ The study has been commissioned by Liverpool University on behalf of the local health authorities.
▪ No federal resources are provided to state and local health departments to support the national notifiable disease system.
mental
▪ Planning proposals for a new system of mental health services for the areas of Lisbon and Oporto were developed.
▪ At times he wondered about his mental health.
▪ Finally, there is mental health.
▪ So they recover faster from illnesses. Mental health is also improved among patients who pray, according to studies.
▪ Conclusion Our knowledge about mental health in later life remains patchy and is, in many domains, highly limited.
▪ To get more funding, one community mental health center demonstrated an increased demand from dislocated workers.
▪ Of the remaining 20% of the total transfer people with mental health problems will receive approximately 6%.
▪ The private mental health workers would be hired on a contract basis through the county.
national
▪ The position, as the Government have repeatedly made clear, is that trusts will remain part of the national health service.
▪ Dole accused Clinton of improperly claiming credit for a number of measures of national economic health.
▪ We need to keep them within the national health service work force and to make better use of their additional skills.
▪ On 31 March 1987 there were 942 practices in the national health service which used a computer.
▪ Has not the experiment proved a disaster for vast numbers of national health service patients?
▪ This was an important step towards a national health service, though in practice few authorities did much to modernize their facilities.
physical
▪ Their deteriorating physical and mental health offers only the prospect of further decline and the ultimate sentence of old age - death.
▪ Depression is a leading cause of suicide in the elderly, and also affects mood, behavior and physical health.
▪ Of course fitness is only one cornerstone in the triangle of physical health: the other two are diet and sleep.
▪ Mental and physical health may be taxed by child care.
▪ What is the cost to your emotional and physical health? 7.
▪ After all: Physical beauty is not... as important as physical health.
poor
▪ Thus the impact of an increased risk of coronary heart disease associated with poor dental health could be substantial.
▪ Both single people and unhappily married people report poorer health than peo-ple who are happily married or partnered.
▪ The effects are more severe than oxygen depletion and may result in prolonged poor health in your fish.
▪ Who could blame a wife, herself elderly and in poor health, for suggesting suicide to her terminally ill husband?
▪ Even during recent years of poor health, his outstanding qualities were riveting charm and mental vitality.
▪ New studies suggest children of divorce face a higher risk of depression, poor health and delinquency.
▪ The monument, by Barzaghi, was completed when the writer was old and in poor health, as can been seen.
▪ The exceptionally poor health of the Aboriginal community has elicited cross party support for action.
primary
▪ The front-line members of these teams are local women recruited and trained to provide primary health care to their villages.
▪ My family health services authority is making plans to establish its own primary health care research ethics committee.
▪ A member of the primary health care team has now been designated liaison officer and all messages are passed to her.
▪ It could lead to the dilution and fragmentation of the strengths and skills of the primary health care team.
▪ The Tomlinson report's description of the inadequacy of primary and community health services in London commands widespread agreement.
▪ No one model of primary and community health services will be appropriate across the whole city.
▪ There may also be inter-professional tensions, as well as intra-professional ones, for example in the case of primary health care teams.
private
▪ They may encourage home ownership, or private health insurance or personal pensions.
▪ Home care is also provided by private home health agencies, hospitals and public health departments.
▪ We will abolish tax relief for private health insurance, whilst protecting the rights of existing policy-holders.
▪ Objective: a totally private health market.
▪ Further moves could also be made towards increasing the two-way interaction between public and private health care sectors.
▪ That includes fraud against private health plans and against government programs such as Medicare.
▪ Because neither life insurance nor private health plans normally cover you against the financial consequences of a permanently disabling accident.
▪ The system serves people with severe and persistent mental illnesses who lack private health insurance.
public
▪ Such methods are more difficult to handle when it comes to public health...
▪ Both individual health care coverage and core public health functions are needed to maintain health at the community level.
▪ This marriage between epidemiology and statistics is reinforced in schools of public health, where the subjects are usually taught in parallel.
▪ The public health infrastructure of this country is poorly prepared for the emerging disease problems of a rapidly changing world.
▪ Central to the concept of prevention in the public health model is the idea of cause.
▪ One of the worst city public health departments in the country, politically corrupt, was no better after four years.
▪ Students who successfully complete the work will receive a new degree, a graduate certificate in public health.
▪ The health of a community is vital to the health of individuals and must be maintained through effective public health approaches.
well
▪ The less stock, the better its health and growth rate.
▪ We want better education, better roads, and better health care, for the same tax dollar.
▪ This demonstrates the difficulties in proving that higher expenditure leads to better health.
▪ Diet books can work similarly, by offering readers inspiration and a new strategy toward weight loss or better health.
▪ But at least it could be better for your health and wealth.
▪ It funds research into the better health of women and babies around the country.
▪ Vice-versa, an educated general public is likely to make better use of health services than an illiterate public.
▪ It duly noted that extra money would not necessarily buy better health.
■ NOUN
authority
▪ A consultant paediatrician yesterday joined Labour candidate Alan Milburn to oppose a merger between two district health authorities.
▪ New York City health authorities also took a benign view of leprosy.
▪ The financial management of community care funds to be transferred from both social security and health authorities. 3.
▪ Huw Lloyd for the health authority.
▪ But both health authorities issued a warning that the charter needs support from patients if it is to be a success.
▪ The health authority agreed to settle the case just a week before it was due to go to court.
▪ But now the health authority has refused the money, the handouts will stop.
▪ There was a range of health authority resources.
benefit
▪ The evidence now suggests that giving up smoking in the seventh decade of life brings health benefits.
▪ He observes that managed care companies have simply responded to employers who pay health benefits and want to cut costs.
▪ The President may indeed have settled on a programme of health benefits and how to finance them.
▪ Or it could be other things in the foods that happen to be rich in beta carotene that provide the health benefits.
▪ QALYs are a method of assessing the health benefits of a given procedure against the resources used to achieve it.
▪ To encourage employers to provide health benefits, the cost they incur could be credited toward the minimum-wage increase.
▪ It might be noted that some of these health benefits are very substantial.
▪ Their pollsters have warned that the public understandably reacts negatively when told health benefits may be slashed.
care
▪ That is what we seek to do, rather than adopting a defeatist attitude to the delivery of health care.
▪ The other is preventive health care for all, including prenatal care.
▪ Health authorities will now start buying health care from a range of competing providers.
▪ Job creation in some areas, such as health care, is likely to be offset by big cutbacks at AT&038;.
▪ At the governmental level, administration and whole health care systems become geared to particular forms of approach.
▪ All other health care funds with 10-year records have seen double-digit losses in their weakest year.
▪ Purchasers and providers recognise that sharing of information can contribute to the shared aim of improving health care.
▪ That was the conclusion of a General Accounting Office report in 1992 on fraud in the health care system.
centre
▪ Adolescents, men, the homeless, and people with sexually transmitted diseases may not feel comfortable in a health centre.
▪ A community psychiatry system was adopted which had the mental health centre at the middle.
▪ The district nurse is attached to the general practitioner surgery or health centre.
▪ The old police station is now the health centre with four doctors and several community nurses.
▪ That health centre job must really pay.
▪ The cash has bought medical equipment which will be presented tomorrow in Mr Horne's name to the town's health centre.
club
▪ Seven purpose-built conference suits, exclusive health club and heated indoor pool and gymnasium.
▪ The department occasionally receives complaints about health clubs, usually alleging a club did not fulfill promises about its facility or equipment.
▪ I had been to the health club there.
▪ The store cost $ 185 million to open, sporting custom-made furniture and a health club.
▪ An early form of health club?
▪ They appear in health club ads, fit, trim and tanned, with impossibly taut abdomens.
▪ You know what it costs to join a health club these days?
▪ Join a health club to improve your fitness and figure. look carefully at your clothes.
department
▪ But Keith Atkinson, director of the council's environmental health department, remains unconvinced that the allotment owners are blameless.
▪ In contrast, non-communicable diseases have been virtually ignored by local health departments.
▪ Home care is also provided by private home health agencies, hospitals and public health departments.
▪ This had been carried out inside the health department and had come up with findings that were easily predictable.
▪ Reporting would be received by state health departments as soon as cases are suspected or identified.
▪ However, limited resources have left many state and local health departments with inadequate capacity to conduct surveillance for most infectious diseases.
▪ Most state health departments and many larger local city / county health departments have assigned specific personnel to deal with AIDS-related matters.
education
▪ Certainly those working with the mentally ill or the handicapped or the senile or in health education may properly think it is.
▪ Programs of health education for professionals, as well as for the public, were introduced.
▪ The environmental organization had written to all the country's general practitioners in January offering a health education poster and booklet.
▪ What can be done to ensure that the staff development needs of health education co-ordinators are met?
▪ Maternity work with women from varied ethnic backgrounds developed my interest into health education and promotion.
▪ Clinical and research interests include psychiatric, paediatric and adult nursing; midwifery; community nursing and health education.
▪ Certain health education topics such as bereavement, child abuse and education for parenthood were omitted by large numbers of schools.
food
▪ I discovered they're all switching to health foods, cutting out fat, salt and pork.
▪ Similasan Eye Drops 3 for computer eye fatigue will be available beginning this month in health food stores and select pharmacies.
▪ Many people believe that they help emotional and psychological symptoms; they are available from some chemists and health food shops.
▪ A health food store is a good place to search for the herbs listed above.
▪ Lunch can be a sandwich filled with vegetarian cheese or a ready-made spread from a health food shop.
▪ The children ate organic foods from health food stores and from the garden at their home.
▪ If you are tense try some of the natural relaxant products that are available from health food stores, rather than taking drugs.
▪ Charlie wants to start a campaign to get people to eat grass-fed beef as a health food.
hazard
▪ Living close to overhead electric power lines causes health hazards.
▪ The public is convinced tobacco smoking is a health hazard and must be reined in.
▪ Campaigners claim deposits of coal dust released into the atmosphere are a health hazard and a nuisance.
▪ Excess body fat is a health hazard.
▪ Henry did realize, didn't he, that what he'd done had constituted a real health hazard?
▪ A public health hazard, to be sure, but not exactly the stuff of a page-turner.
▪ It happens like this: a pressure group asserts that promotion of product X causes health hazards and demands a marketing code.
▪ Nothing is maintained, sewer networks, water pipes, or treatment plants, so health hazards have flourished.
insurance
▪ If you have health insurance, you may be covered for private treatment abroad anyway.
▪ The health care and health insurance system we knew is gone.
▪ Laws extending health insurance and maternity leave?
▪ A consensus has long existed to make health insurance portable and to assure some coverage for people with existing health problems.
▪ Employers buy health insurance with pre-tax dollars.
▪ The health-insurance industry might object because the Amish do not purchase health insurance.
▪ New concepts-Underwriting critical illness and permanent health insurance being sold in volumes by experienced sales people.
▪ A typical business spends an amount equal to half of its annual earnings on employee health insurance.
official
▪ But health officials say that would be impossible.
▪ State health officials have warned that some of those structures are so weak that they could collapse at any time.
▪ Surely local health officials have a duty to make the most of the limited funds at their disposal.
▪ The slow-moving plume has moved thousands of yards past the five-acre yard at Bernardo Avenue and Gamble Lane, health officials say.
▪ The ruling also denies a request from state health officials to have Lake County pay for 24-hour, guarded supervision of Sherrod.
▪ This week, health officials are linking the death of a 3-week-old boy in Indiana to the pet iguana.
▪ The Public Health Service, your local public health officials and your family physician will be able to help you.
▪ The fuel behind the rabies terror may be the fear of local health officials.
problem
▪ Pattern of disease health problems, 2.
▪ To what extent is work inhibition a consequence of mental health problems?
▪ However, it is clear that chronic health problems appear to increase with age.
▪ Some people are very committed to the belief that weight loss is a national health problem.
▪ Throughout the world, the virus hepatitis B has recently become a major health problem.
▪ His wife also has suffered stress-related health problems, he said.
▪ Of the remaining 20% of the total transfer people with mental health problems will receive approximately 6%.
▪ Others, however, thought that there were other health problems more worthy of their attention.
professional
▪ Handwashing seems such a simple task but in fact is a subject of surprising contention among health professionals.
▪ A cavalier unconcern about such consequences is too often the response of powerful mental health professionals who create categories of abnormality.
▪ He is not an engineer, a sanitation expert or a health professional.
▪ Although subtle, this shift demonstrates what health professionals see as a change in priority.
▪ Clearly this method disposes the health professionals toward feeling that they have helped architect the final programme.
▪ All this adds up to a full-scale revolt against status quo medicine by the largest group of health professionals.
▪ We will increase the availability both of treatment by women health professionals and of home birth.
▪ It was approved by the Food and Drug Administration and enjoyed a sterling reputation among health professionals.
risk
▪ Are the long-term health risks of playing through injury explained to, and understood by, players?
▪ All have policies allowing women of child-bearing age to transfer to other jobs if they are concerned about health risks.
▪ These circumstances, along with the health risk, convinced Leopold of the need to leave the city for a while.
▪ The health risks of dieting should be more of an issue for her.
▪ I find it very sad that the traditional weekend by the sea cam now be considered a health risk.
▪ Multiple birth babies have a much greater health risk than single births, including life-long health consequences, the study said.
▪ The environment minister, Michael Meacher, conceded that the pyres could be a health risk.
▪ Some people began early on to hint that fat was a health risk.
service
▪ To spell out how the concept works, plans for care management in Southwark's mental health services are described.
▪ A license is not required in other areas of health services management.
▪ I wonder what the Labour party would cut elsewhere in the health service to make up for that loss of revenue.
▪ Critics say food vouchers, health services and company warehouse-style housing with accompanying bedtime curfews smack of sharecropping days.
▪ In these circumstances the long-term future for mental health services in inner London was not good.
▪ Program evaluation is one of the methods of control used in health services.
▪ Ministers believe these partnerships are vital to their pledge to revitalise the health service, public transport and education.
▪ It chronicles recent changes within the professions and the health services and is a useful source of reference and information.
status
▪ Consequently mortality is the oldest and most widely used index of health status.
▪ Kassebaum wanted some sort of rating system that would rank the states by the general health status of their populations.
▪ It is accepted that within any given population there are natural variations in health status.
▪ Outcomes are considered the ultimate indicators of quality measuring the actual health status of the client.
▪ Perceptions of health status One aspect of health status omitted from the previous chapter on morbidity relates to perceived health status.
▪ The first step is to establish that linkage between nutrition factors and health status in a systematic way.
▪ Perceptions of health status One aspect of health status omitted from the previous chapter on morbidity relates to perceived health status.
▪ It involved following the health status and disabilities of a national sample of people for 12 years.
system
▪ They are also helping to developing models for an alternative health system.
▪ The mental health system was even worse.
▪ The strain on the health system can be lessened by family, social, and psychological support mechanisms in the community.
▪ Women are driven through the health system like sheep through a dip.
▪ Historically, countrywide health improvements have begun with the public health system.
visitor
▪ The pressures of child-abuse work prevent most health visitors from doing more than minimal surveillance of the frailest old people.
▪ If you are worried about them, talk to your doctor, midwife or health visitor.
▪ The services included midwives, health visitors, district nurses and various clinics.
▪ They asked for a multi-agency conference to be convened, involving the Social Work Department, teachers, doctors and health visitors.
▪ Health union negotiators said they would refuse to accept the award for Britain's 600,000 nurses, midwives and health visitors.
▪ Ealing social services informed Hackney social workers and the health visitor that the family would be temporarily in the borough.
▪ We are told that there are 28,000 qualified district nurses and health visitors.
▪ It is important that the health visitors and nurses who go to those homes can meet the needs that they find there.
warning
▪ As ever, the normal health warnings apply.
▪ California has required health warnings on all alcoholic beverages and in all premises that sell alcohol.
▪ The Food Safety Directorate say that all packets of cling film should carry health warnings.
▪ The most visible effect would be general health warnings covering up to 40 percent of packages of cigarettes as of September 2002.
▪ A total of 169 days merited health warnings in 1989.
▪ A health warning has also been issued against the consumption of mussels from the area, which extends form Berwick to Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
▪ Given the potential for abuse, should drinks packaging carry a health warning on the label?
▪ His bone-structure showed strength, yet his mouth had a masculine sensuality that should have carried a health warning.
worker
▪ There was a shortage of trained health workers in all categories.
▪ She has been diagnosed with tuberculosis, kidney problems and malnutrition, health workers say.
▪ We talked to health workers and campesinos all over the country.
▪ Also patron of health workers, interracial justice, public education, and race relations.
▪ Doctors are the most expensive health workers.
▪ There are certainly fewer trained health workers in the field now than in 1985.
▪ Understandably, health workers and the public are confused.
▪ A professional mental health worker should have access to information concerning local support and self-help groups.
■ VERB
damage
▪ Still to come ... can the new craze for step aerobics actually damage your health?
▪ Inside the body, the virus is powerful and can be extremely damaging to human health.
▪ Avoid poisons Every day there is another scare about some product damaging our health.
▪ The blocking of natural functions can damage our health.
▪ It is a state of unease of the mind, and in the horse damages both its health and behaviour.
▪ Living can damage your health, he wrote.
▪ Similarly, workfare might expose people to the stigma and frequent humiliations that are damaging to health.
fail
▪ After the great disaster of his failed health reforms, he rarely tried again to do anything bold.
▪ She was forced to leave the convent because of her failing health.
▪ Far down the list of arguments had been that Gen Pinochet was an old man, with failing health.
▪ Public officials lacking his peculiar combination of charm and combativeness have failed to improve health, education, or housing.
improve
▪ This is important because there are many interests which may try to stifle attempts to improve health care.
▪ Healthy, it seems to me, is something that improves your health when you eat it, like broccoli or kale.
▪ The only way to improve the health of the children is to ensure they get non-radiated food, clean water and air.
▪ He also listed the capital investments that have been made to improve health care in his constituency.
▪ Such programmes should be directed at lifestyle rather than disease detection, and targeted at improving the health of women of all ages.
▪ Campaigns to improve the health of the armed forces represented a classic instance of the inter-relation between science and politics.
▪ Unless the stressful tension is released, it will not improve the health, the temper or the situation.
provide
▪ The front-line members of these teams are local women recruited and trained to provide primary health care to their villages.
▪ The Senate added a $ 16 billion tobacco tax to provide extra health care funding for uninsured children.
▪ Many authorities provide extensive occupational health facilities which are not available in all employment situations.
▪ To encourage employers to provide health benefits, the cost they incur could be credited toward the minimum-wage increase.
▪ A local government, for example, may provide health, education and highway services.
▪ However, providing health care to all Texas children would be costly.
▪ The growing role of municipalities in providing health care means that there is bound to be more emphasis on primary care.
▪ Under the system they envision, employers would have to provide health insurance.
spend
▪ The austerity measures affected primarily spending on health, social welfare, defence and overseas development assistance.
▪ Also, as incomes increase with economic growth, citizens are willing to spend more for health and safety.
▪ We note, however, that this figure is extremely high, considering the amounts spent in other health and safety areas.
▪ How much money has his Department spent in conjunction with the health board on those applications?
▪ Other fixes are more complex and include changing how Medicare pays doctors and hospitals, monitors spending and subsidizes private health insurers.
▪ But since 1985 governments have cut down drastically on the amount they are spending on health.
▪ Hospitals receive about 42 % of all the money spent on health care, an estimated-150 billion in 1983.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a clean bill of health
▪ Three months after the operation, the doctors gave her a clean bill of health.
▪ And with a clean bill of health, Granato is promising to be same kind of performer he always was.
▪ Charles ended up with a clean bill of health and a parking ticket.
▪ If the ship was given a clean bill of health, Customs Officials went on board.
▪ The influential Bell study gave them largely a clean bill of health as a model for determining disputes concerning entitlement to benefit.
▪ They gave it a clean bill of health.
banking/drug/health etc czar
▪ Barry R.. McCaffrey, White House drug czar.
▪ Our drug czar watches in impotence as shooting wars between drug gangs erupt in city after city.
▪ Similarly, when Dole asserts that Clinton reduced the office of drug czar by 83 percent, he is on solid ground.
▪ Standouts include Douglas's anti-drugs czar whose daughter is a crackhead.
▪ When drug traffic escalates, they appoint a national drug czar.
be the picture of health/innocence/despair etc
drink sb's health
fragile health
▪ Loneliness, fragile health and homelessness are just a few of the problems they face without our help.
give sb/sth a clean bill of health
▪ Maddox was given a clean bill of health by his doctor.
▪ If the ship was given a clean bill of health, Customs Officials went on board.
▪ The influential Bell study gave them largely a clean bill of health as a model for determining disputes concerning entitlement to benefit.
▪ They gave it a clean bill of health.
in rude health
▪ He came from a long-lived line and was himself in rude health.
▪ Its record provides hard evidence to support his picture of a service in rude health rather than decline.
passport to success/health/romance etc
▪ Early on he learned - the hard way - that it was the passport to success.
▪ Finally, don't assume winning a talent contest is a passport to success.
▪ The Union Jack will be our passport to romance.
▪ We live in an increasingly competitive world where good qualifications are a passport to success.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Betty's worried about her husband's health.
▪ For most animals, a shiny coat is a sign of health.
▪ I wish you health and happiness.
▪ Linda's one of those people who always seem to be worrying about their health.
▪ Most Americans listed unemployment, health, and education as the most important issues.
▪ Nasdaq stocks fell amid concerns about the health of dot-com companies.
▪ Pollution in the atmosphere causes serious health problems for many people.
▪ There's no reason why you shouldn't continue working until you're 70 or over, if you're in good health.
▪ Too much stress is likely to affect both your mental and physical health.
▪ Your health is more important than any amount of money.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A consensus has long existed to make health insurance portable and to assure some coverage for people with existing health problems.
▪ A stroke in 1976 started his health problems, and five years ago he moved to Sussex.
▪ Lakeside leisure complex with pool and extensive health and fitness facilities.
▪ No one asks male thriller readers questions about their reading and extrapolates from that to their political state of health.
▪ The group nurses the animals back to health at Rossett, near Chester, before finding a good home for them.