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HEALTH CARE CONSUMER [12 records]

Record 1 2020-12-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Economics
  • Medical and Hospital Organization
CONT

To thrive rather than just survive in today's competitive health care marketplace, every medical practice must acknowledge that the recipient of its services is a consumer, one whose rights must be observed.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Économique
  • Organisation médico-hospitalière
CONT

Mieux informer le patient consommateur. Le consommateur, qui est aussi patient, doit être plus et mieux informé. Encore faut-il que les organes d'informations soient indépendants et non sous la houlette de l'industrie pharmaceutique [...]

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Economía
  • Organización médica y hospitalaria
DEF

Servicios de salud.

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Record 2 2019-02-15

English

Subject field(s)
  • Marketing
CONT

Service cooperatives are a type of "consumer cooperative" which help to fill a need in the community. They allow consumers the opportunity to supply their own needs, gain bargaining power, and share earnings. They are organized to give members more control over the services that are offered. Examples [of] service co-ops [are] child care, health care clinics, and funeral services.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commercialisation
CONT

Coopératives de services. Elles fournissent des services à leurs membres (individus ou corporations). Elles sont la propriété des utilisateurs des services. Leur taille peut aussi varier de petites garderies à de grosses coopératives d'habitation.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Comercialización
CONT

[…] son cooperativas de servicio las que tengan por objeto distribuir los bienes y proporcionar servicios de toda índole, preferentemente a sus socios, con el propósito de mejorar sus condiciones ambientales y económicas y de satisfacer sus necesidades familiares, sociales, ocupacionales o culturales. […] las cooperativas de esta clase podrán tener el carácter de escolares, de establecimiento y distribución de energía eléctrica y de agua potable, de vivienda, de aprovisionamiento, de ahorro y crédito y también de beneficio para las actividades del hogar y de la comunidad.

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Record 3 2012-04-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Medication
OBS

The Association’s original focus was on fair trade and pricing practices. ... Over the years, the Association has changed its name a couple of times to reflect its expanding membership and mandate: in 1987, PAC changed its name to the Nonprescription Drug Manufacturers Association of Canada (NDMAC); and in 2009, it was renamed Consumer Health Products Canada.

OBS

Consumer Health Products Canada envisions a day when self-care is broadly recognized and supported as being an integral part of Canadian health care.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux canadiens
  • Médicaments
OBS

L'accent premier de l'Association portait sur le commerce et les pratiques d'établissement de prix équitables. [...] Au fil des ans, l'Association a changé de nom à quelques reprises pour rendre compte du changement de son mandat et du nombre croissant de ses membres. En 1987, l'Association canadienne des spécialités grand public est devenue l'Association canadienne des fabricants de médicaments en vente libre. En 2009, elle a obtenu un nouveau nom : Produits de santé consommateurs du Canada.

OBS

Produits de santé consommateurs du Canada entrevoit que le jour viendra où les autosoins seront reconnus et appuyés comme faisant partie intégrante des soins de santé au Canada.

Spanish

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Record 4 2010-12-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Trade Names
  • Types of Glass
  • Prostheses
  • Prosthetic Dentistry
DEF

A type of bioactive glass that bonds with living bone and tissue, and illicits a specific biological response at its interface, thus promoting bone regeneration.

OBS

Composition: 45% SiO2, 24.5% CaO, 24.5% NaO2, and 6% P2O5 by weight.

OBS

It is used as an implant material both in dentistry and in orthopedic surgery.

OBS

Bioglass 45S5 : A trademark of Glaxo Smith Kline Consumer Health care Inc.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Appellations commerciales
  • Sortes de verre
  • Prothèses
  • Dentisterie prothétique
DEF

Type de verre bioactif qui interagit chimiquement avec les os vivants et les tissus, ce qui favorise la régénération osseuse.

OBS

Composition: 45 % de SiO2, 24,5 % de Na2O, 24,5 % de CaO et 6 % de P2O5 en poids.

OBS

Il est souvent utilisé dans les implants dentaires ou orthopédiques.

OBS

Bioglass 45S5 : Marque de commerce de la société Glaxo Smith Kline Consumer Health care Inc.

Spanish

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Record 5 2010-04-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
OBS

Information confirmed by the Canadian Dental Association (CDA).

OBS

The Consumer Products Recognition Committee proposes categories of recognition for products demonstrating diagnostic, preventive or therapeutic benefits in oral health care, examination or treatment, which are marketed to consumers or dental professionals. It also develops guidelines for applicants, and accepts and processes applications for recognition or products within its approved categories.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux canadiens
OBS

Information confirmée par L'Association dentaire canadienne (ADC).

OBS

Le Comité des produits de consommation propose, en vue d'en faire reconnaître, des catégories de produits qui présentent des avantages diagnostiques, préventifs ou thérapeutiques pour les soins, les examens ou les traitements de santé bucco-dentaire et qui sont mis en vente à l'intention des consommateurs et des professionnels dentaires. Le Comité énonce également des directives à l'intention de ceux qui font des demandes en vue de faire reconnaître leurs produits, reçoit les demandes et les traite en fonction des catégories approuvées.

Spanish

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Record 6 2007-03-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Organization Planning
  • Communication (Public Relations)
  • Hygiene and Health
CONT

In the fall it plans to roll out a new consumer outreach program, which will bring awareness of the ingredient's potential benefits to metabolic and mental health directly to end users, as well as to qualified health care practitioners.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Planification d'organisation
  • Communications (Relations publiques)
  • Hygiène et santé

Spanish

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Record 7 2005-05-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Medication
OBS

Established in 1964, CAPDM is a leading health care industry association with a unique focus on supply chain management. The membership consists of full service pharmacy distributors, pharmaceutical manufacturers, health and beauty and consumer product manufacturers, and other organizations providing goods and services to the health care industry.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux canadiens
  • Médicaments

Spanish

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Record 8 2003-11-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • National Bodies and Committees (Canadian)
  • Mental Disorders
OBS

Founded in 1951, the Canadian Psychiatric Association is the National Voluntary profession association for psychiatrists. The CPA's approach to the promotion of quality psychiatric care is biopsychosocial multidisciplinary and multisectoral. The association strives to open lines of communication and encourage collaboration both within psychiatry and with other professions, consumer groups, government, and the private sector in advocating for improved mental health services and strategies.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux canadiens
  • Troubles mentaux

Spanish

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Record 9 2003-07-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Laws of the Market (Economy)
  • Marketing Research
CONT

Main demand drivers are : aging population, geographic dispersion, access to health care, informed consumer, cost containment pressure, CPE demand(licensing requirements increasing.

CONT

Starting with today’s level on non-CPE oil demand and prices we linked world oil demand growth positively with economic growth and negatively with price ...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Lois du marché (Économie)
  • Étude du marché
CONT

Les principaux facteurs qui motivent la demande sont les suivants : le vieillissement de la population, la dispersion géographique, l'accès aux soins de santé, le consommateur averti, la pression de compression des coûts, la demande des PEP (croissance des exigences d'octroi de licences).

Spanish

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Record 10 1997-11-21

English

Subject field(s)
  • Finance
  • Medical and Hospital Organization
CONT

... Canadians are becoming more educated health care consumers and they shop around.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Finances
  • Organisation médico-hospitalière
CONT

[...] les consommateurs de soins de santé canadiens se montrent de plus en plus avertis et magasinent avant d'acheter.

Spanish

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Record 11 1996-04-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Marketing
  • Food Industries
  • Sociology
CONT

It used to be enough just to make a fairly decent product and market it. Not anymore. In the ’90's, you’ve got to have a Corporate Soul. The consumer will want to know who you are before buying what you sell... Who you are will mean publicly stating your environmental policy, your stance on health care and child care, how(or if) you deal with an Apartheid country, what other brands you have or other names you market under.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Commercialisation
  • Industrie de l'alimentation
  • Sociologie

Spanish

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Record 12 1995-03-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Negotiable Instruments (Commercial Law)
CONT

Technology and the consumer growth staples which include communications, drugs health care and merchandizing are prominent among US selection.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Effets de commerce (Droit)

Spanish

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