health official

collocation in English

meaningsofhealthandofficial

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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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official
noun[C]
uk
/əˈfɪʃ.əl/
us
/əˈfɪʃ.əl/
a person who has a position of responsibility in ...
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(Definition ofhealthandofficialfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofhealth official

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Clearly, the publichealthofficialis not replacing the physician; rather, ethicists now realize a need to be in dialogue with both.
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Second, by engaging the publichealthofficialprimarily, bioethicists stand to lose some of the "excitement" and "allure" of traditional, clinical bioethics.
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Whereas the publichealthofficialapproaches the social with insights about demographic patterns and epidemiological impacts that are fundamental generalizations, the physician offers very detailed, experiential narratives for each patient.
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We picked up issues very often through the visitinghealthofficial.
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Since the contaminated blood affair, no publichealthofficialhas been willing to take any responsibility whatsoever.
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A third aspect is possibly the most important, and it involves liberating from the dead hand of bureaucracy the innovativehealthofficialor institution.
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Also, the emergency manager would work on recovery steps for the affected population and infrastructure while the publichealthofficialaddresses how to prevent an outbreak from occurring again.
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Of these, the health officials were the most important.
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Fairground managers should work with local public health officials to make agricultural fairs safer.
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The use of technological interventions to preserve that health, whether by medical doctors, public health officials, or architects can have unexpected consequences.
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If this hypothesis is correct, clinicians and health officials should focus on foods eaten recently when evaluating sources for nonpregnancy-associated cases.
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My correspondents insisted that public health officials are the only persons who are qualified to establish criteria for defining population health.
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I do not know the extent to which the recommendations of the health officials were implemented.
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Even the municipal authorities believed that health officials were too severe in the implementation of sanitary laws and that such severity was not justified.
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Unlike public health officials, many others who oppose policy that addresses the determinants of health are antagonistic to population-based studies more generally.
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However, according to local health officials, irrigation developments may produce increased levels of malaria and bilharzia.
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Yet health officials were against the idea of giving contraceptives to them.
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The importance of diarrhoeal disease was acknowledged by public health officials who also alluded to the link with women's employment.
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