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health service

Noun

Meaning

health service (plural health services)

a public (or private) service providing health care to the general public.

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health-service

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Intervention for the prevention and control of osteoporosis should comprise a combination of legislative action, educational measures, health service activities, media coverage, and individual counselling to initiate changes in behaviour. Gro Harlem Brundtland

The National Health Service is the closest thing the English have to a religion, with those who practice in it regarding themselves as a priesthood. Nigel Lawson

Let me make one thing absolutely clear. The National Health Service is safe with us. Margaret Thatcher

The principle that adequate health care should be provided for all, regardless of ability to pay, must be the foundation of any arrangements for financing the Health Service. Margaret Thatcher

We must establish on broad and solid foundations a National Health Service. Here let me say that there is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies. Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have. Winston Churchill

Public health service should be as fully organized and as universally incorporated into our governmental system as is public education. The returns are a thousand fold in economic benefits, and infinitely more in reduction of suffering and promotion of human happiness. Herbert Hoover

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