- •Health Services in Great Britain Лабораторная работа по английскому языку
- •The National Health Service
- •Practitioner services
- •Family doctor service
- •Professional training
- •Vocabulary notes
- •Answer the following questions
- •Fill in the blanks with appropriate words from the text
- •Fill in the blanks with prepositions and conjunctions
- •Find Russian equivalents to the following
- •Find English equivalents to the following
- •Translate into English
Министерство образования Российской Федерации
Дальневосточный государственный университет
Health Services in Great Britain Лабораторная работа по английскому языку
для студентов IV курса Восточного института
Владивосток
Издательство Дальневосточного университета
1999
ББК81.2Англ
УДК 802.0:910 (076.5)
Данная лабораторная работа предназначена для студентов IV курса. Цель — овладеть лексикой по данной теме. Комплекс упражнений, представленных в работе, способствует активному усвоению лексики, расширяет словарный запас, способствует закреплению навыков устной речи и обеспечивает их дальнейшее развитие.
Подготовлена на кафедре английского языка Восточного института ДВГУ.
Составители: Н. Г. Зверева. З.М. Пантюх, Н.В. Юрчик.
Печатается по решению учебно-методического совета ДВГУ.
© Издательство Дальневосточного университета, 1999
The National Health Service
The Acts setting up the National Health Service in Britain came into force in 1948. Before that time the state was mostly concerned with the development of the environmental health services, such as provision of pure water, sewerage, disposal of refuse and cleaning of streets.
The object of the National Health Service Act was the establishment of a comprehensive health service designed to secure improvement in the physical and mental health of the people and the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of illness.
The introduction of the new health service did not mean a complete break with the past. On the contrary, all that was good in the existing services was absorbed into a new scheme. The National Health Service made it possible that the benefits once available only to insured persons or those who could afford to pay for them, or as a form of charity, became available to everyone.
Originally it was free but certain charges were introduced later and show a definite tendency to grow.
The services provided by the National Health Service fall into three main groups:
The general practitioners services. This includes the family doctor service, the dental service, the eye service and some other services.
The hospital and specialists services.
The local health and welfare authority services (comprising a range of home and clinical services for prevention, treatment or care).
The cost of health and welfare services in Britain is met from general taxation, local rates and from charges paid by the patients.
There are charges for prescriptions, for dental treatment, for some other health services. The cost of prescriptions has risen so sharply of late that people who need them most (old-age pensioners, people with large families) often cannot afford to buy medicines.
The public is free to use the Service, or any independent part of it, as it pleases.
About 97 per cent of the whole population of Great Britain is using the Service. The great majority of specialists and general practitioners are taking part in the Service.
Practitioner services
The practitioner services consist of the Family Doctor Service, the Dental Service, and the Pharmaceutical Service. All these services provide the patient with the individual medical attention that he needs.