- published: 06 Dec 2011
- views: 943
The Minister of Health, formerly styled Minister of Public Health, is a minister in the government of New Zealand with responsibility for the New Zealand Ministry of Health and the District Health Boards.
The present Minister is Jonathan Coleman, a member of the National Party.
The first Minister of Public Health was appointed in 1900, during the premiership of Richard Seddon. The word "Public" was dropped from the title when Sir Maui Pomare took over the portfolio from 27 June 1923, as simply "Minister of Health".
In the health system reforms of the 1980s, the Department of Health lost responsibility for both the provision and funding of healthcare — these roles were transferred to separate Crown Health Enterprises (the precursors to today's District Health Boards) and the Health Funding Authority, respectively. The only function remaining was policy-making (resulting in the Department being renamed a Ministry). For a time, there was a separate Minister in Charge of Crown Health Enterprises, who was not necessarily the same as the Minister of Health. Further reforms have changed this, however — the Health Funding Authority has been re-absorbed into the Ministry of Health, and the modern District Health Boards, while not part of the Ministry, are considered a responsibility of the Minister of Health.
Actors: Yoshino Kimura (actress), Julianne Moore (actress), Gerry Mendicino (actor), Mark Ruffalo (actor), Don McKellar (actor), Joe Pingue (actor), Paulino Nunes (actor), Maury Chaykin (actor), Joe Cobden (actor), Gael García Bernal (actor), Niv Fichman (actor), Gael García Bernal (actor), Danny Glover (actor), Niv Fichman (producer), Sandra Oh (actress),
Plot: A city is ravaged by an epidemic of instant "white blindness". Those first afflicted are quarantined by the authorities in an abandoned mental hospital where the newly created "society of the blind" quickly breaks down. Criminals and the physically powerful prey upon the weak, hoarding the meager food rations and committing horrific acts. There is, however, one eyewitness to the nightmare. A woman whose sight is unaffected by the plague follows her afflicted husband to quarantine. There, keeping her sight a secret, she guides seven strangers who have become, in essence, a family. She leads them out of quarantine and onto the ravaged streets of the city, which has seen all vestiges of civilization crumble.
Keywords: african-american, agnosia, airplane-collision, airplane-crash, allegory, ambulance, amebiasis, anarchy, animal-licking-someone, apocalypseActors: Sterling Youngman (producer), Igor Guzun (actor), Roland Muldoon (actor), Vera Maryanchik (actress), Chuck Portz (director), Katherine Hunt (editor),
Genres: Thriller,Actors: Adel Imam (actor), Lotfy Labib (actor), Mariam Fakhr Eddine (actress), Soleiman Eid (actor), Wahid Hamid (writer), Said Tarabeek (actor), Diaa El-Merghani (actor), Enaam Salousa (actress), Hajjaj Abdul Azim (actor), Ahmed Akl (actor), Alaa Waley El Din (actor), Sherif Arafa (director), Mahmoud El-Bezzawy (actor), Abdel Rahman Abou Zahra (actor), Dalal Abdel Aziz (actress),
Plot: Officer Magdy investigates the suicide of a groom on his wedding night. he knows that the groom was impotent. Later he realizes that impotence is becoming an epidemic that spreads among all men. However, no one wants to declare that out of shame. A young journalist tries to do her own investigation about that phenomenon too.
Keywords: bride, brothel, clinic, discussion, doctor, epidemic, father-son-relationship, fear, groom, healthActors: George S. Clinton (composer), Kevin Connor (director), Joseph Shiloach (actor), Brian Dennehy (actor), Bernard Gribble (editor), Brooke Adams (actress), Don Warrington (actor), Lacia Kornylo (miscellaneous crew), Danny Ben Menahem (miscellaneous crew), Yoram Ben-Ami (producer), Bruce Franklin Singer (writer), Katherine Schofield (actress), Lois Luger (producer), Oliver Litondo (actor), Jonathan Atherton (actor),
Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama,Actors: Tim Rogers (writer), Tim Rogers (editor), Katherine Stenholm (director), Jack Buttram (actor), Dwight Gustafson (composer), Laura Stevenson (editor), John Magnuson (miscellaneous crew), Edward Panosian (actor), Fred Pachter (miscellaneous crew), Willie Thompson (actor), Harrell Whittington (costume designer), Ann Glenn (miscellaneous crew), James Earls (actor), Tye Thompson (actor), Bettie Dreisbach (miscellaneous crew),
Genres: Drama,Actors: Michael Medwin (actor), Hal Osmond (actor), Victor Maddern (actor), Gibb McLaughlin (actor), Frederick Leister (actor), Richard Marner (actor), Terence Alexander (actor), Ronald Adam (actor), Martin Boddey (actor), Christopher Lee (actor), Michael Balfour (actor), Oskar Homolka (actor), George Cole (actor), Wilfrid Hyde-White (actor), Kynaston Reeves (actor),
Plot: Potts (George Cole), a British Sanitary Engineer (a plumber in the Colonies), leaves on vacation (holiday in the Empire) with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention. Everyone is hunting for him, including the Russians. The Russkies find him and offer him a job in the Kremlin doing research (on plumbing he believes), he accepts, arrives in Russia and falls in love with Tania, a secret agent. And discovers the true nature of the plans he is carrying.
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Hans May (composer), Joan Davis (miscellaneous crew), Montgomery Tully (writer), Marie Ault (actress), Paul L. Stein (director), Patricia Medina (actress), Charles Paton (actor), Wylie Watson (actor), David Keir (actor), Hay Petrie (actor), Hans May (actor), Ferdy Mayne (actor), Thorley Walters (actor), Hugh Dempster (actor), Brefni O'Rorke (actor),
Plot: Old Vienna, at a time when the waltz was considered an immoral dance. Maria promises her dying father, the Emperor, that she will follow the wishes of the Council of Ministers when she assumes the reign. Empress Maria wishes to marry the dashing Count Franz von Hofer, but the old fashioned Council advises against it due to his philandering reputation. The Prime Minister's daughter, Cenci Prohaska, asks Maria to help her marry her beloved Lieutenant Stefan Ravenne, because her father has plans for her to marry the rich, but boring, Ferdinand Hohenlohe. Cenci tells her that she wore a mask to waltz at the Golden Lantern and that von Hofer flirted with her there. So Maria hatches a plan to also visit the Golden Lantern in disguise.
Genres: Musical,Actors: Vladimír Slavínský (actor), Josef Sváb-Malostranský (actor), Ferenc Futurista (actor), Ladislav H. Struna (actor), Jan W. Speerger (actor), Vladimír Smíchovský (actor), Cenek Slégl (actor), Theodor Pistek (actor), Miroslav Josef Krnanský (director), Miroslav Josef Krnanský (writer), Luigi Hofman (actor), Ferry Seidl (actor), Karel Fiala (actor), Bronislava Livia (actress), Antonín Marek (actor),
Genres: Adventure,