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Record 1 2025-03-24

English

Subject field(s)
  • Health Insurance
  • Collaboration with WIPO
CONT

Private health insurance is often defined as insurance that is taken up voluntarily and paid for privately, either by individuals or by employers on behalf of employees... This definition recognizes that private health insurance may be sold by a wide range of entities, both public and private in nature.... The reference to private payment signals a further defining characteristic : private health insurance premiums are typically linked to a person's risk of ill health or set as a flat rate, whereas pre-payment for publicly financed coverage is almost always linked to income.

OBS

private health insurance: designation validated by Canadian subject-matter experts from the National Research Council of Canada, and from the Université de Montréal and the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Rehabilitation of Greater Montreal.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Assurance-maladie
  • Collaboration avec l'OMPI
CONT

L'assurance-maladie privée recouvre un ensemble hétérogène de conceptions et de régimes de financement de la santé. Déjà, ce qu'on entend par assurance-maladie publique et privée diffère selon les pays. […] On a établi la distinction entre l'assurance-maladie publique et l'assurance-maladie privée en fonction de la source principale et des mécanismes de financement — l'assurance-maladie privée étant définie comme la couverture santé assurée principalement par des paiements privés non liés au revenu […]

OBS

L'assurance maladie privée est une assurance à laquelle les individus adhèrent volontairement et qui est payée soit par les individus eux-mêmes ou leur employeur.

OBS

assurance maladie privée; assurance-maladie privée : désignations validées par des spécialistes canadiens du Conseil national de recherches du Canada ainsi que de l'Université de Montréal et du Centre de recherche interdisciplinaire en réadaptation du Montréal métropolitain.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Seguro médico
  • Colaboración con la OMPI
CONT

La proporción de la población que posee un seguro médico privado contratado varía enormemente entre países y no es fácil de comparar por la enorme variedad de tipos de cobertura y de servicios asistenciales. En los Estados de la UE [Unión Europea] en los que predomina el seguro médico privado de carácter complementario, la cobertura oscila entre un 20 y un 70 % de la población, mientras que el seguro médico de carácter suplementario cubre como media a un 10 % de la población.

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Record 2 2012-09-20

English

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

"hospital" means a building that is owned and operated by a non-profit corporation and in which hospital services, as defined in The Health Services Insurance Act, are provided to persons who are ill or injured... but does not include(d) the Selkirk Mental Health Centre, the Brandon Mental Health Centre or the Eden Mental Health Centre;...

French

Domaine(s)
  • Organismes et comités nationaux canadiens
  • Établissements de santé
  • Troubles mentaux
OBS

« hôpital » Bâtiment que possède et dirige une corporation à but non lucratif, dans lequel des services hospitaliers au sens de la Loi sur l'assurances-maladie sont fournis aux malades et aux blessés [...] Sont exclus de la présente définition : c) le Centre psychiatrique de Selkirk, le Centre psychiatrique de Brandon et le Centre psychiatrique d'Eden; [...]

Spanish

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Record 3 1996-08-28

English

Subject field(s)
  • Dentistry
DEF

Caries noted particularly in old age when supporting tissues have receded, occurs in cementum, usually on proximal surfaces of the teeth; involving both cementum and dentin, a slowly progressing chronic lesion of the root surface involving plaque and microbial invasion.

CONT

It has been known by a variety of terms, including cemental caries, cervical caries, radicular caries and even "senile" caries. Root caries is usually seen as a shallow(less than 2 mm deep), ill defined softened area, often discolored and characterized by destruction of cementum with penetration of underlying dentin.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Dentisterie

Spanish

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Record 4 1987-02-06

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général

Spanish

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Record 5 1986-07-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation
  • Language Problems

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction
  • Problèmes de langue

Spanish

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Record 6 1977-11-01

English

Subject field(s)
  • Offences and crimes
DEF

In English law. A written or printed document containing seditious matter or published with a seditious intention, the latter term being defined as "an intention to bring into hatred or contempt, or to excite disaffection against, the king or the government and constitution as by law established, or either house of parliament, or the administration of justice or to excite the British subjects to attempt otherwise than by lawful means the alteration of any matter in church or state by law established, or to promote feelings of ill will and hostility between different classes. "

French

Domaine(s)
  • Infractions et crimes
OBS

séditieux: Qui tend à la sédition. Sédition: Révolte concertée contre l'autorité publique.

OBS

En langage juridique, l'anglais a pris ce terme pour désigner le délit de diffamation. L'emploi que nous faisons de "libelle" est un anglicisme. Il faut dire "écrit diffamatoire".

OBS

Observation tirée d'une fiche de Radio Canada intitulée "libelle" no. 59.

Spanish

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Record 7 1977-09-08

English

Subject field(s)
  • Paleontology
OBS

A [trilobite] protaspis having only (...) six somite divisions is designated "anaprotaspis" (...)

OBS

[The anaprotaspis is] the smallest protaspis in a size series, in which [the] protopygidium is extremely small and ill defined.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Paléontologie
OBS

Le stade "protaspis" [du développement d'un Trilobite] peut être scindé en deux sous-stades (...): le stade "anaprotaspis" qui suit l'éclosion; la larve, en forme de disque convexe, se réduit au céphalon, déjà trilobé, avec une glabelle lisse ou segmentée (...)

Spanish

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Record 8 1976-06-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Translation
  • Language Problems
OBS

defined

French

Domaine(s)
  • Traduction
  • Problèmes de langue

Spanish

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