Health issues Flashcards
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une maladie = = =
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a disease, an illness, a sickness
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souffrir d’une maladie
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to suffer from a disease
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mourir d’une maladie = =
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to die of, to die from a disease
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une maladie grave
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a serious disease
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être dans un état critique
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to be critically ill
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un microbe, un germe
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a germ
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des bactéries
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bacteria
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attraper la grippe
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to go down with the flu
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un danger pour la santé
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a health hazard
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un fléau = = =
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a curse, a plague, a scourge
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What is the WHO ? = = =
Its successes ?
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- The World Health Organization
- Specialized agency of the United Nations that coordinates international efforts to control outbreaks of infectious disease (SARS, malaria, Tuberculosis…)
- Carries out various health-related campaigns (ex : boost the consumption of fruits and vegetables / discourage tabacco use)
- Smallpox (variole) eradicated in 1980 = the first disease in history to be eliminated by human effort.
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cancer du poumon, sein, peau
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lung, breast, skin cancer
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cancérigène
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carcinogenic
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diabète
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diabetes
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hépatite
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hepatitis
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malaria, paludisme
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malaria
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maladie sexuellement transmissible (MST), maladie vénérienne
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a sexually transmitted disease (STD), a venereal disease (VD)
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avoir une maladie cardiaque
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to have a heart condition
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maladie d’Alzheimer, de Parkinson
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Alzeihemer’s / Parkinson’s disease
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une maladie neurodégénérative
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a neurodegenerative disease
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Disease of poor nutrition ? = = =
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- enough calories but too few micronutrients
- Over half of women in India and two-fifth of those in Indonesia ara anaemic -dificient in iron
-Lack of vitamin A causes membranes around organs to shrivel, leaving them vulnerable : like eyes = half a million children become blind each year.
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un symptôme
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a symptom
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affecter, toucher un pays
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to affect a country
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toucher 20% de la population
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to afflict 20% of the population
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la zone la plus durement touchée
the hardest-hit area
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éradiquer
to eradicate
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What is "Médecin sans Frontières" ?
- Founded in 1971 by a band of young French doctors disillusioned with the neutrality of the Red Cross in Biafra.
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SIDA, syndrome d'immunodéficience acquise
AIDS = acquired immune deficiency syndrome
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contracter le SIDA
to develop AIDS
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un malade du SIDA = =
an AIDS sufferer, an AIDS patient
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séropositif
HIV-positive
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un test de dépistage
a screening test
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le sperme = =
sperm, semen
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avoir des rapports sexuels non-protégés
to have unprotected sex
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un préservatif
a condom
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l'abstinence
abstinence
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la fidélité
faithfulness
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une aiguille
a needle
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la trithérapie = =
triple therapy, combination thereapy
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un traitement médical
medical treatment
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secret médical
medical confidentialy
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une infection nosocomiale
a hospital-acquired infection
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une bactérie multi-résistante
a superbug
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prescrire
to prescribe
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une ordonnance
a prescription
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un médecin généraliste
a general practitioner
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un chirurgien
a surgeon
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se faire opérer = = =
to have surgery, go through surgery, to have an operation
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diagnostiquer
to diagnose
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un diagnostic
a diagnosis
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guérir un patient
to cure a patient
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un remède = =
a remedy, a cure
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un médicament = = =
a drug, a medicine, a medication
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un antalgique, analgésique
a painkiller
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un effet secondaire
a side effect
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une piqûre = =
an injection, a shot
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prendre des antibiotiques
to be on antibiotics
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un laboratoire pharmaceutique
a pharmaceutical laboratory
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des produits pharmaceutiques
pharmaceuticals
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un vaccin
a vaccinee
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se rétablir, guérir
to recover
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guérison, rétablissement
recovery
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rechuter
to relapse
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une alerte à l'intoxication alimentaire
a food scare
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un péril/une alerte sanitaire
a health scare
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nocif
harmful
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taudis
slums
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avide
greedy
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épizootie
an epizootic disease
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la fièvre aphteuse
food-and-mouth disease
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l'encéphalopathie bovine spongiforme
bovine spongiform encephalopathy
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la maladie de la vache folle
mad-cow disease
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une maladie à prions
a prion disease
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la dioxine
dioxin
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le scandale du poulet à la dioxine
the dioxin chicken scandal
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la traçabilité
traceability
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nutriments
nutrients
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les soins médicaux / les services de santé
health care
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la santé publique
public health
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les responsables de la santé publique
public health officials
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les autorités sanitaires
the health authorities
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le système de santé = =
the health care system, the health system
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les services de santé
health services
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les dépenses de santé
health expenses
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Sécurité sociale au Royaume Uni = = =
- National Health Service (NHS)
- Funded largely through taxes including a proportion from National Insurance payments (les cotisations)
- Headed by the Secretary of State for Health
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Il vaut mieux prévenir que guérir
Prevention is better than cure
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Se porter comme un charme
To be as fit as a fiddle
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ne pas être dans son assiette = =
to be under the weather, to be off-colour
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avoir un chat dans la gorge
to have a frog in your throat
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être bien vivant
to be alive and kicking
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être à l'article de la mort
to be at death's door
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casser sa pipe, passer l'arme à gauche = =
to kick the bucket, to pop your clogs
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L'avenir appartient à ceux qui se lèvent tôt
Early to bed, early to rise make a man healthy, wealth and wise.
