Yet there are also times when swift and temporary actions can help ensure that inevitable market adjustments do not undermine the health of the broader economy.
It's therefore no surprise that last week the Lancet accused multinational food, drink, and alcohol industries of using similar strategies to the tobacco industry to undermine public health policies and suggested they should be regulated.
His speech, unlike Mr Blair's, acknowledged the unions and described vouchers and health care charges as dangerous American imports that would undermine the National Health Service (NHS).
Critics also said encouraging individuals to buy health insurance could undermine the system of employee-based health insurance, with no guarantee a new system would emerge to replace it.
For one thing, failure could undermine future efforts in public health.
Fiorina, however, said McCain's plan would not undermine the employee-based health insurance system because employers would continue to offer health coverage to attract and keep quality employees.
It irritates the majority who are already behaving responsibly, and it may also undermine all government pronouncements on health by convincing people that they have an ultra-cautious margin of error built in.
HIV widespread poverty, poor educational and job prospects, crumbling health services undermine the country's prospects even without the disease.
This has led to concerns that replacing the Primary Care Trusts with Commissioning Consortia of GPs will undermine the public accountability of the Health Service.
During this time the constant stress and negativity has been found to undermine their performance, damage their health, destroy their relationships and leave them feeling depressed and anxious.
Instead of punishing users who the report says "do no harm to others, " the commission argues that governments should end criminalisation of drug use, experiment with legal models that would undermine organised crime syndicates and offer health and treatment services for drug-users.
The greatest puzzlement will undoubtedly concern the actions taken to undermine even further the calamitous state of health and education at a time when it was obvious that the economic future of country depended on having a healthy and well-educated population.
Legalization runs counter to a public health approach to drug control because it would increase the availability of drugs, reduce their price, undermine prevention activities, hinder recovery support efforts, and pose a significant health and safety risk to all Americans, especially our youth.
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As Next Avenue blogger Nancy Collamer has noted: High stress levels due to a workplace bully can undermine your performance at work and harm your health.
Health Minister Earl Howe disagreed, saying that involving the health secretary in decision-making would undermine his or her ability to hold Monitor to account.
"As long as this situation continues, it will undermine efforts to successfully combat hospital acquired infections, " said health spokesman Norman Lamb.
Karen Jennings, national secretary of the health workers' union Unison, said the proposals would undermine the NHS as a public sector provider in the long term.
"Elections, weak coalition governments, the health of presidents and the emergence of newly aligned opposition parties could easily undermine stability, " warns a recent report by Peregrine Securities International.
Health Minister Earl Howe argued that Labour would give the health secretary "wide powers to direct the board", which would undermine the government's aim to free the NHS from day-to-day political interference.
Thereby ideas embraced by Republicans even a decade ago -- such as the individual mandate to buy health insurance -- are now seen as radical and a clear attempt to undermine the U.S. Constitution and replace freedom with socialism.
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Given the heavy emphasis on lifestyle and wellness under Obamacare including a provision allowing employers to incentivize employee wellness with up to 30 percent of their health insurance premium look for Gary to help dispel some unscientific myths that undermine these programs.
The Obama administration on Friday said it would stop granting new waivers to the health-care overhaul in September following sharp opposition from Republicans who cited the waivers in their bid to undermine the law.
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"There are real risks that perverse incentives will be created that will undermine partnerships that have taken time to develop and foster an unproductive culture of buck-passing and mutual blame between health and social care, " the report said.
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