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saúde mercantil

English translation: private health care

08:07 Apr 27, 2008
Portuguese to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Medical: Health Care / national accounts
Portuguese term or phrase: saúde mercantil
Na atividade Outros Serviços, o índice de volume do valor bruto de produção relativo à saúde mercantil será modificado.
Muriel Vasconcellos
United States
Local time: 22:43
English translation:private health care
Explanation:
possibly, also "for-profit health care"
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T o b i a s
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Bingo! It turns out to be a back-translation of English "for-profit health care.
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2commercial healthcare
Kathryn Litherland
4private health
Leniel Maccaferri
2 +1private health care
T o b i a s
3mercantile health
rhandler


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private health care


Explanation:
possibly, also "for-profit health care"


    Reference: http://www.seplan.go.gov.br/sepin/viewcad.asp?id_cad=1116&id...
T o b i a s
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 14
Grading comment
Bingo! It turns out to be a back-translation of English "for-profit health care.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Tania Fracasso: Concordo plenamente.
2 hrs
  -> Obrigado Tania
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
commercial healthcare


Explanation:
This document has a good discussion of mercantil and não-mercantil in the context of national healthcare accounting in Brazil.
http://bvsms.saude.gov.br/bvs/publicacoes/regulacao_saude.pd... (It's a big file if you want to load it)
"A atividade realizada pelas empresas é considerada mercantil porque o conceito
de produto (ou Valor Adicionado) depende da diferença entre o valor do produto (preço de
venda) e o valor dos insumos. Vale dizer: como a receita das empresas depende da venda
do produto no mercado, a atividade desempenhada pelas mesmas é considerada uma
“atividade mercantil”...
"no setor de saúde mercantil estão inclusas as atividades de atendimento
médico e hospitalar; os serviços de complementação diagnóstico-terapêutica prestados por
laboratórios de análises clínicas e clínicas de fisioterapia; serviços odontológicos; serviços
veterinários; e serviços auxiliares de saúde prestados por empresas e autônomos. E esse
último setor inclui, também, os serviços de atenção a crianças, idosos, desempregados e
desamparados, prestados por orfanatos, asilos, centros de reabilitação e outros"

Kathryn Litherland
United States
Local time: 01:43
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  dorisarraia
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agree  Luciana Roppa
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private health


Explanation:
no item Saúde Mercantil, onde mercantil quer dizer privada...

Search for mercantil no link da referência.


    Reference: http://oglobo.globo.com/economia/miriam/post.asp?cod_post=52...
Leniel Maccaferri
Brazil
Local time: 02:43
Native speaker of: Native in PortuguesePortuguese
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mercantile health


Explanation:
This is perhaps too literal, but it's one possibility, as in these examples:

NCPAD:Programs by Location: Senior Fitness - Providence Mercantile ...
Senior Fitness - Providence Mercantile Health and Fitness Center. Address 1: 4015 SW Mercantile Drive; City: Lake Oswego; State: Oregon; Zip Code: 97035 ...
www.ncpad.org/programs/index.php?id=571&country=&state=Oreg...

JSTOR: New BooksDr. A. B. Emmons, 2nd, as director of the Harvard Mercantile Health Work, ... Sometime there may be a better book on mercantile health work; ...
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8282(192609)16:3<518:N...


rhandler
Local time: 02:43
Native speaker of: Portuguese
PRO pts in category: 51
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