Even so, the radar at Shemya -- designed to detect missile launches around the globe -- will be a cornerstone of any system, according to defense officials.
Arguably, governance is the cornerstone of a health system, as it includes the formal and informal players that define and enforce rules needed for the system to perform its key functions of promoting and protecting the health of its population [ 51, 52].
Primary care is widely considered to be the cornerstone of a health system, since it brings improved access to essential health services, puts heavier focus on prevention and initiates early management of health problems, which lead to better health outcomes and less health inequity in the population [ 4– 9].
To critics like Mr. Khan, this type of politics represents the rot in government: the cornerstone of an unfair system riddled with graft and nepotism.
By excluding China, the world's second largest economy, from the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership on trade while embracing the revision of Japan's pacifist constitution to allow military action beyond self-defense without an apology for colonialism and aggression acceptable to its Asian neighbors, the U.S. and Japan are laying the cornerstone of a new bloc system in the Pacific.
The ability to entrain to rhythmic, repetitive patterns is the cornerstone of a dynamic auditory system.
Finally, the fundamental right of all children and families to effective services and supports and to drive their own care is seldom taken as a cornerstone of a health care system.
Christmas is a colonial imposition, a cornerstone of the system that made slavery possible and poverty inevitable; but it is also the highlight of this little Jamaican kid's year, and its subjugations have simultaneously been outed by and sublimated into song: For all she's gladdened: milk dreaming love in one hand; clefts of clementine stain the other.
According to the new scheme [ 26], PHC will become the cornerstone of an effective healthcare system in which GPs will act as gatekeepers to secondary and tertiary healthcare services and where PHC centers will form independent health units.
General Practice is the cornerstone of an effective health system [ 1].
