Sentence examples for cases of sickness from inspiring English sources

The official Danish sick leave policy is based on the obligation of the municipalities to assess all cases of sickness benefits within eight weeks after the first day of sick leave.

"The number of cases of sickness are growing, and very many young people have fallen ill".

The first cases of sickness associated with the current outbreak occurred in early March.

A proportion of previous earnings were to be paid in cases of sickness, injury, widowhood, and old age.

Junior medical officers are attached to ships or to shore stations and deal with most cases of sickness in their units.

National health insurance covers expenses of medical and hospital treatment: blue- and white-collar workers and salaried employees are protected in cases of sickness, disability, unemployment, and maternity and in their old age.

Later she opened a boarding school for girls in Edinburgh, where she also was active in various charitable enterprises, notably a "penny society," a fund for mutual relief in case of sickness to which the subscribers contributed a penny weekly.

Where, as in the case of sickness and accident, neither the desire to avoid such calamities nor the efforts to overcome their consequences are as a rule weakened by the provision of assistance – where, in short, we deal with genuinely insurable risks – the case for the state's helping to organize a comprehensive system of social insurance is very strong.

The use of compulsory insurance as a mechanism to provide medical benefits and cash benefits in the case of sickness, disability, widowhood, and old age became acceptable to legislative bodies fearful of accepting extended state intervention that would require higher taxes to finance pensions or other benefits.

In the case of sickness that is not associated with any occupational factors, most industrial countries pay a short-term benefit followed by a long-term pension after periods varying from about six months or less to a year or more.

In case of sickness on board, seafarers might find themselves in need of medical evacuation and/or repatriation1 [9].