health issue

collocation in English

meaningsofhealthandissue

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health
noun[U]
uk
/helθ/us
/helθ/
the condition of the body and the degree to which it is free from illness, or the state of ...
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issue
noun[C]
uk
/ˈɪʃ.uː/us
/ˈɪʃ.uː/
a subject or problem that people are thinking and ...
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(Definition ofhealthandissuefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofhealth issue

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Nor was the surveillance of animals and their health a particular publichealthissue, although animals did cause concern.
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Consequently, not only is medical retirement ahealthissue, it is also one of financial responsibility.
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This definition is more parsimonious and isolates the most salient publichealthissue.
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In fact ethics pervade the smallest and simplesthealthissue, and serve to provide a framework for everyday practice.
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A major publichealthissueis to determine whether long-term benzodiazepine use may induce cognitive deficits persisting after withdrawal.
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Beginning in 1982, an education campaign sponsored by a pharmaceutical company was launched to create public awareness of osteoporosis as an important women'shealthissue.
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Falls have always been a majorhealthissuefor older people, but over the past few years there has been an explosion of interest in their prevention.
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That was the reason for so many pyres, which constitute a human as well as an animalhealthissue.
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The windows remain broken, the ceilings leak, the pipes are unsafe and the home is a danger to health—it is a publichealthissue.
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Candidates canvassed and campaigned on thehealthissue.
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To country people, this is a far more intractable priority, and welfare, economic andhealthissuethan fox-hunting.
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This represents a serioushealthissue, testifying not only to illness, personality and psychological disorders but also to the action of individual evil.
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The quality of bathing water thus represents both ahealthissueand an important indicator of environmental quality and tourism development.
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This really is a quintessential publichealthissue.
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Turning to the second part of my noble friend's question, the real publichealthissueis that of exposure to sunlight generally, particularly sunbathing.
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Reducing the problem to a merehealthissuewould amount to an intolerable trivialisation.
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The potential damage of rapid weight loss is a serioushealthissue.
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I spoke yesterday to educationists who emphasised that outside toilets are ahealthissue.
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