organisme médico-social
English translation: intercompany occupational health service
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| 18:43 Dec 20, 2008 |
| French to English translations [PRO] Medical - Medical: Health Care / vaccination, occupational health | |||||||
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| 3 +1 | (employer's) health insurer |
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| 3 +1 | service médical interentreprises - |
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| 2 | Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) |
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peer agreement (net): +1(employer's) health insurer Explanation: not sure, but this might fit http://www.pandemicflu.gov/plan/workplaceplanning/healthinsu... |
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Health Maintenance Organization (HMO) Explanation: is typically used for health insurance plans provided by employers |
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peer agreement (net): +1service médical interentreprises - Explanation: I think the distinction is being made between the occupational health service of the company, administered by the employer - the médecin du travail is an employee of the company - and the "service médical inter-entreprises", which is an independent association (asbl) to which the company adheres. http://books.google.com/books?id=VHei8IvFTa8C&pg=PA17&dq="se... I have seen this translated as "corporate medical service" Dictionary of Medicine: French-English with English-French Glossary - Page 846 by Svetolik P. Djordjevic - Reference - 2004 - 1150 pages ... Workers' Union SMG [soins médicaux gratuits] \abbr\: free medical care [ France] SMI [Service médical interentreprises] \abbr\: Corporate Medical Service which I don't think really conveys the "interentreprises" notion, and "labor medical service" for Belgium: International Labor and Employment Laws - Google Books Resultby William L. Keller, Timothy J. Darby, Carl ... - 2003 - Law - 2700 pages Labor-Medical Service Each employer must be affiliated with a licensed "labor- medical service" (Interbedrijfsgeneeskundige dienst - Service medical ... books.google.com/books?isbn=1570183902... Whether such a body exists in the US, I have no idea. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 14 hrs (2008-12-21 08:46:24 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/emire/BELGIUM/INTERCOMPANYMED... http://fr.prevent.be/net/net01.nsf/p/A0B3CA248B5CB899C12572A... Few spelling mistakes in this, but good info re organisation of occupational health services in France: http://www.hvbg.de/d/pages/praev/forum_praev/praev2/prog/bei... -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 15 hrs (2008-12-21 10:02:29 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- >> my regular physician, company or intercompany occupational health service -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 19 hrs (2008-12-21 13:53:48 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- The EMIRE site is helpful: http://www.eurofound.europa.eu/emire/FRANCE/COMPANYMEDICALSE... COMPANY MEDICAL SERVICE FRANCE MÉDECINE DU TRAVAIL COMPANY MEDICAL SERVICE Service within the enterprise, or catering jointly for several enterprises, whose role as laid down by law is to prevent any impairment of employees' health as a result of their work. It monitors occupational health conditions, and issues its formal opinion on employees' fitness: at the recruitment stage (see hiring ) on the fitness of potential employees to occupy their intended job, and after a cessation of work because of illness or accident (see accident at work , illness ) on an employee's fitness to resume work. It is responsible for suggesting organizational changes to take account of employees' state of health. -------------------------------------------------- Note added at 19 hrs (2008-12-21 13:56:16 GMT) -------------------------------------------------- Explanations in French http://www-sante.ujf-grenoble.fr/sante/corpus/disciplines/me... |
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