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health care workforce

French translation: Professionnels de la santé

GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW)
English term or phrase:health care workforce
French translation:Professionnels de la santé
Entered by: Simon Charass

23:45 May 7, 2009
English to French translations [PRO]
Medical - Medical (general) / public health
English term or phrase: health care workforce
What is the French equivalent of "Health Care Workforce"

is main d'oeuvre is there force de travail?
cmorin
Local time: 11:49
Professionnels de la santé
Explanation:
Une autre possibilité.
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Simon Charass
Canada
Local time: 12:49
Grading comment
thank you
4 KudoZ points were awarded for this answer



Summary of answers provided
2 +6personnel dans le secteur de la santé
Tony M
4 +4Professionnels de la santé
Simon Charass
4 +2personnels/agents de santé
marie-christine périé
4Personnel médical
Kalda
4corps médical
Aitor Aizpuru
4intervenants en soins de santé
Martine Perriau


Discussion entries: 5





  

Answers


4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 2/5Answerer confidence 2/5 peer agreement (net): +6
personnel dans le secteur de la santé


Explanation:
Personally, I don't think one need go quite as far as 'main d'œuvre' — though it would help so much to know the context of the document in which this occurs?

Normally, 'personnel' is, I think, sufficient to render the idea of 'workforce', unless there are special reasons in the context to suggest otherwise.

Tony M
France
Local time: 18:49
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 50

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  NancyLynn
18 mins
  -> Thanks, Nancy!
agree  hadda: Agree, personnel englobe toutes categories de travailleurs (et donc de "workforce") dans le secteur de la sante.
36 mins
  -> Merci, Hadda ! Oui, c'est exactement ça que je voulais souligner
agree  Michèle Voyer: Agree that without more context, you have the best approach. Workforce = personnel, effectifs, main-d'oeuvre
5 hrs
  -> Merci, Michèle ! 'w/f' = 'main d'œuvre' in certain specific usages, but risks being pejorative in a general sense.
agree  Stéphanie Bellumat
6 hrs
  -> Merci, Stephanie !
agree  swanda
8 hrs
  -> Merci, Swanda !
agree  carlie602: agree,not all proffs...
2 days 2 hrs
  -> Thanks, Carlie! FR seems to use 'professionnel' more widely than we do 'professional', but I still feel it is unnecessary here.
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8 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +4
Professionnels de la santé


Explanation:
Une autre possibilité.

Simon Charass
Canada
Local time: 12:49
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 8
Grading comment
thank you
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thank you. I used this term


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Shog Imas: Votre traduction est mieux que, "professions santé", selon le site http://www.professionssanteontario.ca/Default.aspx
14 mins
  -> Merci shoima.
agree  :::::::::: (X)
6 hrs
  -> Merci Dr Jones.
agree  GILLES MEUNIER
7 hrs
  -> Merci Gilles.
agree  Diane de Cicco
8 hrs
  -> Merci Diane.
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
Personnel médical


Explanation:
Personnel médical

Kalda
Congo, Democratic Republic
Local time: 17:49
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in FrenchFrench

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Tony M: The problem is, 'h/care workforce' may well include a wider group of staff than merely medical staff.
2 hrs
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2 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
corps médical


Explanation:
http://www.mediadico.com/dictionnaire/definition/medical/1

Le corps médical: L'ensemble des médecins d'une ville, d'une région.




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Note added at 3 hrs (2009-05-08 03:16:35 GMT)
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Le corps médical englobe tous les travailleurs de la santé:

Auxiliaire de soins
Rééducateur
Infirmier
Auxiliaire de soins
Pharmacien
Sage femme
Psychologue
Auxiliaire médico-technique (Préparateur en pharmacie, technicien de labo, prothésiste, assistant dentaire…)
Auxiliaire médico-technique
Médecin, Dentiste, biologiste
...
http://www.ucanss.fr/pdf/RH_nomenclature_emplois/060914_Guid...


Aitor Aizpuru
Mexico
Local time: 10:49
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish, Native in FrenchFrench
PRO pts in category: 24
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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5
intervenants en soins de santé


Explanation:
Ce qui englobe à la fois les professionnels (médecins), les infirmières et infirmiers, et les auxiliaires médicaux (ambulanciers, etc.)

Martine Perriau
Local time: 12:49
Works in field
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in category: 4
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6 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
personnels/agents de santé


Explanation:
OU "prestataires de soins de santé"

Selon le contexte (définitions de l'OMS)
(http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs302/fr/index.htm...

"QU'ENTEND-ON PAR PERSONNEL DE SANTÉ?

Les agents de santé sont tous ceux dont les activités principales ont pour but d'améliorer la santé. Ce sont notamment toutes les personnes qui fournissent des services de santé - médecins, infirmiers, pharmaciens, techniciens de laboratoire - ainsi que les personnels administratifs et d'appui, tels que les agents financiers, les cuisiniers, les chauffeurs et les nettoyeurs."

Et plus loin :
"L'OMS estime qu'il faudrait au moins 2 360 000 prestataires de soins de santé et 1 890 000 agents administratifs et d'appui, soit au total de 4 250 000 agents de santé, ..."


marie-christine périé
France
Local time: 18:49
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: French
PRO pts in category: 612

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  SJLD
2 hrs
  -> merci !
agree  Lionel_M (X)
4 hrs
  -> merci Lionel
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