Physicians, public health experts, and industrial health experts came from the Public Health Service and the Farm Security Administration.

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The full total of the state's workforce, from public administration and the health service to local municipalities, is some 5m people.

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The Social Security Administration and the Public Health Service recruited staff for the UMW program.

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This time-consuming reporting could, in turn, produce additional government oversight and regulation by agencies such as the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Internal Revenue Service.

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This was the most significant reforming administration of 20th-century Britain, the regime that introduced the National Health Service, nationalised one-fifth of the British economy, and granted independence to India.

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The Obama administration decided in 2011 that contraception counted as such a service, citing the health benefits of planned pregnancies for women.

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