• Since its faltering launch in 1948, the National Health Service has become a cherished part of British society. (historyextra.com)
  • When Mahatma Gandhi was assassinated in 1948, and fifteen thousand mourners of Krishnagar assembled on the bank of river Jalangi for a memorial service, Father Bishop was one of the three invited to speak along with a Hindu and Muslim. (bmskrishnagar.in)
  • The second world war provided a wakeup call for Britain which now, like the rest of Europe, regarded healthy citizens as a strategic resource and in 1948 created its own national health service. (steinkrug.co.uk)
  • The Act authorizes the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) (now the Secretary of Education) to assume responsibility for disposing of surplus real property for educational use, and he may sell such property to nonprofit, tax-exempt educational institutions for consideration that takes into account any benefit which has accrued or may accrue to the United States from the transferee's use of the property. (cornell.edu)
  • As Britain's National Health Service celebrates its 75th anniversary this July, two topics look set to dominate the extensive media coverage. (historyextra.com)
  • Even among Britain's international peers, there are few countries that view their health system as emblematic of their 'national' values. (historyextra.com)
  • Britain's health service proved woefully unprepared to deal with the Covid pandemic during which clinicians were left unprotected and thousands of care home residents died. (steinkrug.co.uk)
  • Britain's National Health Service NHS) is funded by way of a National Insurance Scheme, which also funds a state pension, with contributions from both companies and their employees. (steinkrug.co.uk)
  • While a person may decide not to join a company's private health scheme, especially if they are fit and healthy with no family history of serious illness they cannot opt out of Britain's national insurance. (steinkrug.co.uk)
  • Also, the late 2020 push from liberal public health elites that persuaded Pfizer to *change* its original protocols - and had the convenient side-effect of delaying any vaccine announcement until after the election - deserves more scrutiny. (outragedepot.com)
  • The Industrial Disputes Act, 1947 provides for the payment of compensation in case of lay-off and retrenchment. (ukessays.com)
  • Statutory compliance service providers can provide greater efficiency and expertise with lower cost thus substantially reducing the labour cost of your company. (corporatecounsel.in)
  • The theme had three subthemes which were identified based on the three domains of the maternity cycle which are pregnancy, labour and delivery and postpartum period. (biomedcentral.com)
  • One of the most important definitions of worker or employee in Indian labour law is in the Industrial Dispute (ID) Act of 1947. (newsclick.in)
  • The origins of World Labour Day can be traced back to the late 19th century, when workers in the United States and Europe began organizing themselves to demand better working conditions and higher wages. (lakshyaiasacademy.com)
  • Revisions to the law in 1951 limited access to state-funded childcare to children who were "lacking care" (hoiku ni kakeru kodomo) and established a placement system (sochi seido) with varying fees calculated by the Ministry of Health and Welfare. (wikipedia.org)
  • Childcare centers managed by the state and non-profit groups conformed to the eight hours of care a day mandated by the Ministry of Health and Welfare, and could only accept children through the placement program. (wikipedia.org)
  • Rather, it reflects a gradual accumulation of factors: innovations in health care finance and organization, conflicting political and social principles, coincidences of timing, market dynamics, programs stimulated by the findings of health services research, and spillover effects of tax and other policies aimed at different targets. (nih.gov)
  • This chapter provides a rather detailed overview of some important bases for present public and private arrangements for insuring health care. (nih.gov)
  • On almost every front, the thrust in the United States is still expansionist-the uninsured want basic protection, the insured want restrictions on coverage eased, and researchers, providers, and entrepreneurs devise new technologies and services that further stimulate demand for care. (nih.gov)
  • And the company eliminated health care benefits for future management-level retirees. (nyguild.org)
  • When management repeatedly refused to address rising health care costs in the company's subsidy to the joint union-management benefits fund, the Guild came to the rescue. (nyguild.org)
  • At times, the residents of Lake Tahoe literally put hammer to nail to create the first-ever health care facility in these splendid mountains. (laketahoesurgerycenter.com)
  • Through it all, the mission of Barton Health has remained steadfast: to deliver exceptional health care to our neighbors and visitors with compassion and integrity. (laketahoesurgerycenter.com)
  • Other medical emergencies-their mother, Ouida, once fell from a horse and broke her back, and their grandmother broke her neck tumbling down a flight of stairs-made the sisters keenly aware of the need for accessible local health care. (laketahoesurgerycenter.com)
  • Percent Distribution of Receipts by Type of Bill-Percent distribution of total bill re- ceipts during the quarter for each intermedi- ary by type of bill-inpatient hospital, out- patient hospital, extended care facility, and home health agency. (cia.gov)
  • Antenatal education is one of the pillars of antenatal care which aims at improving the health of mothers, babies and their families. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Employee's safety and health should be taken care of in order to protect the employee against accidents, unhealthy working conditions and to protect worker's capacity. (ukessays.com)
  • Arrangements were made through the lumber companies for complete medical care for their workers, who paid a monthly fee for such service. (flaurological.org)
  • Although the main immediate cause of the dire strain the system is under is the Covid-19 pandemic, it is widely recognised that health care was under severe pressure before that. (marxistleftreview.org)
  • [2] Health and health care in any given society are shaped first and foremost by that society's economic system. (marxistleftreview.org)
  • In short, access to health care and medicines is only one of the factors that shape health. (marxistleftreview.org)
  • Within the capitalist framework, health care can be organised in different ways, with varying levels of public and private sector involvement. (marxistleftreview.org)
  • Drawing on health systems expert Gwendolyn Gray's outline of distinct types of systems, it is useful to distinguish between the financing and delivery of health care, and identify whether they are in private or public hands. (marxistleftreview.org)
  • By contrast, where private insurance predominates, both the delivery and financing of health care are in the hands of private operators. (marxistleftreview.org)
  • Private health insurance, in theory, provides a means for individuals or their employers to prepay the costs of health care. (marxistleftreview.org)
  • In the past two months, residents at the Keck School of Medicine of USC, Stanford Health Care, and University of Vermont voted to unionize. (hospitalmedicaldirector.com)
  • Yas Hospital was Constructed with the goal of Supporting the patients and development of health care objectives in the field of female disease. (iranmedicalcare.ir)
  • They called on employers and the government to enact "full social security," by which they meant universal health care and income supports in old age, sickness, and unemployment. (arbark.se)
  • In addition, they pushed for civil rights legislation, paid maternity leave, equal pay legislation, universal child care, and improved state and federal fair labor standard laws. (arbark.se)
  • Ethical medical practice requires managing health services to promote professionalism and secure accessibility to care. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Private insurance companies also reduce access to care whilst fragmenting and segmenting health systems. (biomedcentral.com)
  • We propose the term 'neo-Hippocratic' to define policies favourable to ethical medical practice and the universal right to professionally delivered health care. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The Labor Standards Law (1947) attempted to alleviate gender discrimination by eliminating wage discrimination and ensuring equal treatment (byōdō taigū) by imposing penalties on offending employers. (wikipedia.org)
  • The law guaranteed women twelve weeks of paid (60% of their regular wage) maternity leave. (wikipedia.org)
  • The compensation is paid at the rate of 15 days wage for every completed year of service with a maximum of 45 days wage in a year. (ukessays.com)
  • Dentistry provided by the National Health Service in the United Kingdom is supposed to ensure that dental treatment is available to the whole population. (wikipedia.org)
  • Yet, as surprising as it may appear, in the 1940s public responses to proposals for a 'National Health Service' were mixed. (historyextra.com)
  • [4] In a national health service system, both are publicly controlled: hospital and medical services are publicly financed and provided. (marxistleftreview.org)
  • The central role of employment-based health benefits and the very substantial discretion accorded employers rest, in considerable measure, on federal laws and regulations (in particular, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974) that did not explicitly plan or envision that structure. (nih.gov)
  • That the employee group existed for purposes other than the provision of insurance (that is, to produce a product or service) was an important although not sufficient condition for dealing with biased risk selection and some of the other problems described in Chapter 1 and discussed further in Chapter 5 . (nih.gov)
  • In general, it is the profession demanded by the employee which also corresponds with his/her habitual profession or any other that is adapted to his/her physical and educational aptitudes. (seg-social.es)
  • Companies such as Krupp and Siemens in Germany and Lever Brothers and Rowntree in Britain began spending money on employee welfare and recruited doctors and nurses to work in company health centres. (steinkrug.co.uk)
  • The 1947 Child Welfare Law introduced benefits such as provisions for daycare centers and mother-child housing to accommodate those widowed and orphaned during World War II. (wikipedia.org)
  • Employment and Health Benefits: A Connection at Risk. (nih.gov)
  • The current U.S. system of voluntary employment-based health benefits is not the consequence of an overarching and deliberate plan or policy. (nih.gov)
  • Many of the values, pressures, and conflicts that have shaped the evolution of employment-based health benefits persist and should be factored into evaluations of this system and proposals for restructuring it. (nih.gov)
  • Key executives in large companies might also enjoy fringe benefits like use of time-share condominiums, paid continuing education, use of a company jet, use of a company credit card, discounted or free health club memberships, and a significant amount of paid vacation. (ukessays.com)
  • And to what extent have the difficulties facing the service, and the persistent sense of 'crisis' they've engendered, shaped this sentiment over time? (historyextra.com)
  • In 1947, the Bishop was to face still another crisis, the partition of India. (bmskrishnagar.in)
  • As many of these late middle-aged boomer's health went declined just prior to the pandemic the NHS has been caught on the back foot and faces an acute, decade long, capacity crisis. (steinkrug.co.uk)
  • Last week, Both Iranian President Hassan Rouhani and Zarif penned letters to their foreign counterparts and to the UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres demanding that U.S. sanctions be lifted so that Iran could deal more effectively with a global crisis of seemingly unprecedented proportions. (thealtworld.com)
  • This article does not analyse how the present situation arose, but aims to provide the reader with an historical perspective on the health system confronting this crisis, by examining the key battles that formed its structures in the twentieth century. (marxistleftreview.org)
  • When public services are missing, left to the private sector, and when workers suffer precarious working conditions, everybody pays the price," says PSI General Secretary Rosa Pavanelli. (world-psi.org)
  • This act regulates working conditions in factories, including safety, health, and welfare provisions for workers. (lakshyaiasacademy.com)
  • But working conditions often undermined health, and continue to do so. (marxistleftreview.org)
  • And during later budget cutbacks, the Guild negotiated voluntary buyout packages with three weeks of severance for each year of service (up to two years' pay) - more than the company gave to departing managers. (nyguild.org)
  • That is, if a workman has an income of $5000 per year .and has a service contract that pays in full for services given to the individual under contract with a $6000 income limit, there is no additional medical charge. (flaurological.org)
  • There were approximately 300,000 additional births in 1947 and, statistically, we can expect these people, along with the 700,000 others born in that year will die in 2030 (1947 plus the UK average life expectancy of 83 years). (steinkrug.co.uk)
  • Purpose The goal of this study was to analyze transcription of audio recordings to determine health topics that emerged from brief-motivational interviewing (MI) compared to traditional oral hygiene instructions (OHI).Methods Fifty-eight periodontal maintenance patients were randomized to a brief-MI or traditional OHI group for a longitudinal 1-year clinical trial. (bvsalud.org)
  • Total includes bills for ancillary services paid under Part B as well as other miscellaneous bills, As a result, detail shown may pot add to totals. (cia.gov)
  • Blue Shield's initial concept was to provide paid in full coverage for services rendered to a person, whose annual income was at, or below, the level of the plan purchased to cover that income level. (flaurological.org)
  • It began as a "service" plan, which paid the physician rendering the service directly. (flaurological.org)
  • These early daycare centers were directed towards low-income families and did not offer educational services. (wikipedia.org)
  • Under no circumstances may the advance benefit payment exceed two and a half times the amount of the public indicator of multiple effect income in force at the time of the triggering event or, where appropriate, the amount of the capital cost required for the advance payment, with the limit indicated by the managing Bodies, Mutual Societies and Common Services. (seg-social.es)
  • A payment in full is made for the service, provided the economic status of the person falls below a prearranged annual income. (flaurological.org)
  • 1930- Farabi Eye Hospital was founded by professor Mohammad Qoli Shams who eradicated the trachoma as the major cause of blindness in the South of Iran, performed the first corneal graft operation in 1934, established the Iranian Society of Ophthalmology in 1947, and founded the first eye journal in Iran in 1968. (iranmedicalcare.ir)
  • Apadana Hospital start it's work in 1967 , and over the past 50 years has been one of the centers providing specialized medical, surgical and other medical services. (iranmedicalcare.ir)
  • While the economic system produces conditions detrimental to health, the healthcare system is supposed to prevent and cure illness and treat injury. (marxistleftreview.org)
  • The healthcare system is not expected to maximise good health, but rather to serve the interests of the ruling capitalist class. (marxistleftreview.org)
  • a system of private and public health coverage that has for most of the last 50 years increased financial access to these advances but placed few controls on medical price inflation or overuse of medical services. (nih.gov)
  • In a follow-up tweet, Silver noted that "liberal public health elites" pushed Pfizer to "change its original protocols" pertaining to the authorization to release vaccines so the decision would not be made until after Election Day, The Post noted further. (outragedepot.com)
  • The editor-in-chief of FiveThirtyEight went on to say that public health officials in government "tend to be strong [Democrat] partisans" and as such, their push for the vaccine maker to take its time in announcing the COVID shot "may have been politically motivated in whole or in part. (outragedepot.com)
  • The Politico story that Silver linked to quotes several public health experts who criticized Pfizer for going too fast in seeking FDA authorization of its vaccine. (outragedepot.com)
  • Their concerns are scrutinised from the standpoints of public health and right to health. (biomedcentral.com)
  • To be credible partners in this alliance, physicians' associations should promote a public health culture amongst their members and a team culture in healthcare services. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The 'neo-'prefix is justified by the distributive dimension that the quest for justice in making clinical and public health decisions adds to the traditional Hippocratic ethics. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Medical values are guides for clinical and public health action. (biomedcentral.com)
  • This expansion in coverage created problems as demand for services exceeded supply, ultimately causing issues between the Ministry of Education (which oversaw kindergartens) and the Ministry of Health and Welfare (which oversaw childcare more generally). (wikipedia.org)
  • Organisations that offer Statutory Compliance Advisory Services, with their knowledge and expertise, ensure that your business complies with local and central laws and does not attract any punitive action for non-compliances. (corporatecounsel.in)
  • To provide a foundation for negotiations between physicians' and patients' organisations, we propose policy principles derived from an analysis of rights-holders and duty-bearers' stakes, i.e., patients, physicians and health professionals, and taxpayers. (biomedcentral.com)
  • To promote a universal health system, patients' organisations should strive to represent universal health interests rather than those of patients with specific diseases, ethnic groups, or social classes. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Likewise, the aforementioned managing Bodies, Mutual Societies and Common Services will be responsible for making the benefit payments insofar as said payments do not fall under the scope of the employer responsibility. (seg-social.es)
  • v) that factors militating against effective grassroots community development projects include, non-involvement of community members in the design, implementation and assessment of projects, conflicts among leaders, poor leadership and embezzlement of project fund, inadequate financial and materials, government lip service, poor targeting of projects, natural disasters, unwillingness of the community members to participate in project implementation and use of inappropriate communication network. (schoolthesis.com)
  • The Factory Act of 1911 set minimum standards for health and safety by limiting the workday to twelve hours for women and children, as well as introducing a five-week maternity leave policy. (wikipedia.org)
  • Its revision in 1923 decreased the work day to eleven hours for women and children, added breaks for nursing women, and extended maternity leave by four weeks of prenatal leave and six weeks of postnatal leave. (wikipedia.org)
  • Women workers in LRG services often carry the brunt of precariousness not only due to gender bias and discrimination they endure in any industry, but also because women overwhelmingly make up the bulk of the sector. (world-psi.org)
  • Many respondents welcomed the idea, perceiving it as an improvement on the existing services that left considerable gaps in coverage, particularly for women and children. (historyextra.com)
  • Through health information obtained from antenatal education sessions, women and their families are prepared for pregnancy, childbirth and parenthood [ 1 , 2 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Apadana Hospital, which currentlyincludes internal- surgical departments for men and women, ICU-CCU's special departments,maternity wards and neonatal departments are ready to provide services. (iranmedicalcare.ir)
  • The decision was made to dedicate this hospital to treatment of women however at the moment the purpose is to service male patients beside female patients. (iranmedicalcare.ir)
  • These driven women and men, many without political or legal experience, learned to write bills and appeal decisions, to establish services and defend their clinics, and to lobby and organize in an enormous grassroots effort to see justice done. (sirsidynix.com)
  • Stop precarious work in local public services! (world-psi.org)
  • 31 October: UN World Cities Day - "Stop precarious work in local public services! (world-psi.org)
  • On UN World Cities Day 2018 , PSI calls the United Nations, governments and mayors to halt the widespread use of precarious work in local and regional government services that hurts local communities, undermines the quality and accessibility of local public services, and stands in the way of achieving sustainable, inclusive and resilient cities (SDG11). (world-psi.org)
  • None of these services are possible without a dedicated, well-trained and remunerated workforce, drawn from the community and treated with dignity and a voice at work. (world-psi.org)
  • Also, although keen to do surgery, I had nonetheless failed to do any work on the primary FRCS anatomy correspondence course during my 2 years National Service in Malta. (jimlittlewood.com)
  • The labor force is diverse, and it includes people of all ages, genders, and nationalities, who work in a wide range of sectors, from agriculture and manufacturing to service industries. (lakshyaiasacademy.com)
  • In particular, the capitalist class needs most of the working class to be healthy enough to work and to raise the next generation of workers, and sufficient numbers to be fit for military service. (marxistleftreview.org)
  • firefighters and emergency first responders are just some among the many vital public services local and regional government provide. (world-psi.org)
  • Most dentistry is provided by private practitioners, most of whom also provide, on a commercial basis, services which the NHS does not provide, largely cosmetic. (wikipedia.org)
  • Many dentists who provide NHS services also offer additional services, such as hygienists, for payment. (wikipedia.org)
  • In a same available Calculus and demand where the ship is overwhelmed awareness for high time and only was a constitutional labor, the manager may provide the reservation to make by medical historians, Wider v. 263( 1981)( age records) or to choice of French Agencies, City of Madison Joint School District v. 167( 1976)( law Polity History), although usual times must opt impacted by a financial grade color. (lenasemmler.de)
  • Pursuant to its authority under the Property Clause, Congress enacted the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to provide an economical and efficient system for the disposal of surplus Federal Government property. (cornell.edu)
  • The hospitals had to agree to supply a prescribed limit of service. (flaurological.org)
  • True, Canadians might cite their country's guarantee of universal healthcare as a point of pride to lord over their US neighbours to the south, but Canada does not celebrate its health service to the same degree as we do in Britain. (historyextra.com)
  • Focusing on what turned out to be a pivotal state battle in Missouri, where the Roe decision's most serious threat came from the 1989 challenge, Webster v. Reproductive Health Services, Gorney tells with great compassion and sensitivity the stories of individuals on both sides whose passions fueled the political machine. (sirsidynix.com)
  • Even without the coronavirus outbreak it is likely we would have seen hospital maternity departments and mental health units perform little better than they did before the NHS existed. (steinkrug.co.uk)
  • 468,514 cases were reported to state and local health departments in 2016, an increase of 18.5% from 2015 (1). (cdc.gov)
  • Everyone can access the medical and hospital treatment they need, free of charge (or at a low cost), with services funded through tax revenue. (marxistleftreview.org)
  • Hospital night call rooms, meals while on-duty, hospital-subsidized housing, and maternity/paternity leave are all on the table when residents are unionized. (hospitalmedicaldirector.com)
  • This prompted female workers to campaign for the institution of childcare services for employees. (wikipedia.org)
  • Local and regional government workers delivering essential public services are the cornerstones of such development. (world-psi.org)
  • Prejudices are common when it comes to the alleged "privileges" and conditions enjoyed by government and public service workers in terms of excessive pay, light workload, short working hours and job security. (world-psi.org)
  • The non-seasonal industrial establishments employing 50 or more workers have to give one month's notice or one month's wages to all the workers who are retrenched after one year's continuous service. (ukessays.com)
  • An impartial humanitarian body, such as the International Committee of the Red Cross, may offer its services to the Parties to the conflict. (wikisource.org)
  • It's why Camden has developed a complete range of services, designed to offer support during the first months and years of your child's life. (camden.gov.uk)
  • iv) that involving the people in the decision making processes, allowing the people to join in the planning, execution, assessment and utilization allowing people to offer free services and resources to be provided by the people, and making people to donate or pay projects levy are the nature of participation of community people in grassroots community projects. (schoolthesis.com)
  • Quality urban and local public services are what make cities vibrant hubs of opportunities and engines of inclusive socio-economic development. (world-psi.org)
  • Whether urban expansion creates wealth and inclusion, or poverty, marginalization and social unrest depends on the quality of those services and access to them in our cities and local communities. (world-psi.org)
  • In recent years, major concerns about the fertility rate and childcare services has arisen from the Japanese public and government. (wikipedia.org)
  • During the interwar years, the British public relied on health services that stemmed from government, charitable and private initiative. (historyextra.com)
  • This program began approximately ten years (1939) after the beginning of Blue Cross as a "Physician's Service Plan" and also grew rapidly. (flaurological.org)
  • From the moment you know you're expecting a baby, our services and support will be available to you and your child, right up until birth and for years into the future. (camden.gov.uk)
  • Covid, whose victims were principally drawn from the long tail of the first boomer generation and members of the second with underlying health conditions, will be looked on in eight years' time as a mere ripple preceding a tsunami. (steinkrug.co.uk)
  • 3.85 (r6) N evada (Mutual) -------- (2) (2) (2) I Includes cost data for New York Department of Health, terminated in October 1969, P.R. Coop de Salud, terminated in December 1969, and Michigan Community Health terminated in August 1969, a Individual State data are not available. (cia.gov)
  • Caron received the University of Maine Alumni Association's 2019 Distinguished Maine Professor Award that recognizes the highest qualities of teaching, research and public service. (uma.edu)
  • Global scores and behavioral counts were compared across baseline, 4, 8, and 12-month research visits using mixed-effect models.Results Of the six overarching themes, the brief-MI group evoked more topics toward total health. (bvsalud.org)
  • It was not inevitable that any state-organised universal health system founded after the Second World War would eventually attract such a degree of popular support. (historyextra.com)
  • For example, nonunion employees are charged substantially more for their health insurance, often with skimpier coverage. (nyguild.org)
  • The fundamental element of the "Blues" was that they were "service type" insurance plans. (flaurological.org)
  • Service must be defined and contrasted with indemnity insurance. (flaurological.org)
  • Blue Cross was the first of the "Blues" to be started as an insurance plan with a service type prepaid in full arrangement. (flaurological.org)
  • Where private insurance is the main means of health financing, a proportion of the population is uninsured - usually over 15 percent in industrialised countries - because they cannot afford the premiums, and a further proportion is under-insured. (marxistleftreview.org)
  • Even so, as we shall see later, attitudes to health at different stages in a person's life has had a marked impact on the NHS. (steinkrug.co.uk)
  • The latest achievements of biological scientists and researchers have opened new horizons to enjoy such methods and facilities to obtain sustainable health as the infrastructure of sustainable society and longer life. (iranmedicalcare.ir)
  • The largest union of residents and fellows is the Committee of Interns and Residents (CIR), a part of the Service Employees International Union . (hospitalmedicaldirector.com)
  • A constituency for broad access to health coverage has existed for nearly a century, pressuring both public and private sectors to find new and better ways of extending that access. (nih.gov)
  • In most of the project's implementation, quality IT services will bring experience at the beginning that saves money and time. (corporatecounsel.in)
  • In Bengal's time of great distress, while coping with the stream of refugees that poured into Krishnagar, the Bishop approached the Catholic Relief Services (CRS) in New York for more food supplies for the benefit of the people regardless of caste and creed. (bmskrishnagar.in)
  • In 2022, some 62 per cent of people surveyed by polling organisation Ipsos stated that the service was the thing that made them "most proud to be British" - an increase of 12 per cent from 2016. (historyextra.com)
  • The major findings of the study are: (1) that awareness creation through tradition or mass media, seminar, employing the services of traditional institutions and town unions/community-based organization and involving influential members in the community are effective strategies for mobilizing people for grassroots community development projects. (schoolthesis.com)
  • This argument is supported by the rationale that men are likely to participate in maternal and child health issues and fulfill their supportive roles as husbands and partners if they are knowledgeable about pregnancy, childbirth and early parenting. (biomedcentral.com)
  • It also needs most of the middle classes to be in good enough health to fulfil their specific roles (ranging from shop keepers to managers to doctors). (marxistleftreview.org)
  • Taking notice of the growing military use of DU, we must consider not only the increased threats of radioactive battlefields but also the whole dirty cycle in the uranium industry connected with the DU technology and its impact on health and the environment in the surroundings of test areas and in the uranium industry itself. (ratical.org)