translate English to French: It is estimated that health care spending accounted for 9.8 percent of Canada’s economy in 2002; much of this spending was on wages, salaries and benefits.1 One indicator of labour intensity is the percentage of total spending devoted to earnings, which was 62 percent for the health sector,2 compared to 52 percent for the Canadian economy.3 The period of rapid growth in the labour force is over.
La combinaison des divers types de services offerts par les infirmières autorisées (IA), les infirmières auxiliaires autorisées (IAA), les infirmières psychiatriques autorisées (IPS), les auxiliaires non réglementés et toutes les autres personnes qui prodiguent des services infirmiers aux patients varie d’une région à l’autre.