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Promoción y Prevención de la Salud (Mexican ministry)

English translation: Ministry of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

15:19 Mar 30, 2020
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Government / Politics / English name of ministry
Spanish term or phrase: Promoción y Prevención de la Salud (Mexican ministry)
Hi, all! I'm translating an article about (what else?) the effect of COVID-19 on the economy in Mexico and am not sure how to translate the role of Hugo López-Gatel Ramírez, the Deputy Minister of the above.

My first thought is "Ministry of Health Promotion and Prevention", but that sounds awkward to me.

Thanks in advance for your input!
Sarah DeVries
Mexico
Local time: 16:48
English translation:Ministry of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Explanation:
Search Results
Web results

HIV/AIDS and human rights: public budgets for the epidemic ...books.google.co.uk › books
5.2 The Mexican government's response to HIV/AIDS In 1986, the National ... 64 Health Ministry, Prevention programmes and health promotion in action.

Frontiers | Public Health - Frontierswww.frontiersin.org › articles › fpubh.2019.00347 › full
by M Ingram - ‎2019 - ‎Related articles
15 Nov 2019 - The Mexico Ministry of Health has centralized health insurance ... particularly with respect to health promotion and disease prevention, authority ...

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Note added at 6 mins (2020-03-30 15:25:42 GMT)
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otherwise it reads they are trying to prevent health!!
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liz askew
United Kingdom
Local time: 23:48
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Summary of answers provided
4 +7deputy secretary/undersecretary for public health
philgoddard
4 +5deputy minister if disease prevention and health promotion
Chema Nieto Castañón
4 +2Ministry of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
liz askew
4 -2Undersecretary of Health Prevention and Promotion
Victoria Monk


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5 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
Ministry of Health Promotion and Disease Prevention


Explanation:
Search Results
Web results

HIV/AIDS and human rights: public budgets for the epidemic ...books.google.co.uk › books
5.2 The Mexican government's response to HIV/AIDS In 1986, the National ... 64 Health Ministry, Prevention programmes and health promotion in action.

Frontiers | Public Health - Frontierswww.frontiersin.org › articles › fpubh.2019.00347 › full
by M Ingram - ‎2019 - ‎Related articles
15 Nov 2019 - The Mexico Ministry of Health has centralized health insurance ... particularly with respect to health promotion and disease prevention, authority ...

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Note added at 6 mins (2020-03-30 15:25:42 GMT)
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otherwise it reads they are trying to prevent health!!

liz askew
United Kingdom
Local time: 23:48
Works in field
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 167

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Patrice
31 mins
  -> Thank you!
agree  Sergio Kot: Precisely
42 mins
neutral  philgoddard: It's not clear whether Sarah wants the job title or the name of the department, but there is no ministry of this name. It's a secretariat or department of the health ministry.
1 hr
  -> Well, the asker said "Ministry",,,I concentrated on the rest of the query
neutral  Juan Jacob: Es una subsecretaría...
1 hr
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +5
deputy minister if disease prevention and health promotion


Explanation:
López-Gatell has become the de facto health minister in Mexico -as far as public exposure goes related to Covid updates- but he is actually not; he is the subsecretario de prevención y promoción de la salud (deputy minister of disease prevention and health promotion).



El combate contra el COVID-19 en México tiene el rostro de Hugo López-Gatell. Este médico cirujano es el subsecretario de Prevención y Promoción de la Salud del Gobierno pero su enorme exposición pública para informar de la pandemia lo han convertido, de facto, en el ministro de Salud del país.
https://www.efe.com/efe/america/mexico/lopez-gatell-el-minis...


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Note added at 1 ora (2020-03-30 16:27:27 GMT)
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Deputy Minister of Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

Sorry about the typo in the title...

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Note added at 1 ora (2020-03-30 16:44:00 GMT)
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And sorry again... it should be "for" rather than "of';



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Note added at 1 ora (2020-03-30 16:47:48 GMT)
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Deputy Minister for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion

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Note added at 1 ora (2020-03-30 16:53:47 GMT)
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Deputy Minister for Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (under the Mexican Ministry of Health)

Chema Nieto Castañón
Spain
Local time: 00:48
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish
PRO pts in category: 16
Notes to answerer
Asker: Thank you, very helpful!


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  philgoddard: I think you're confusing things slightly by translating "subsecretario" as "deputy minister", though that's what he effectively is. And I agree that it should be "for", not "of" - he is not the deputy head of a ministry.
24 mins
  -> Thanks phil. And yes, I agree that "deputy minister" might be confusing in English but I see no better way to say it. Thanks!
agree  Lydia De Jorge
3 hrs
  -> Thanks, Lydia
agree  Muriel Vasconcellos: Under Secretary
4 hrs
  -> Yes, Under Secretary [Undersecretary] for... funcionaría bien. ¡Gracias!
agree  Robert Carter: Deputy/undersecretary would be my choice too. Gatell's become a bit of a folk hero out here; some of the memes are hilarious!//Thanks, Chema, you too :-)
9 hrs
  -> :)) Thanks Robert! Hope you are doing alright. Keep up your spirits!
agree  James A. Walsh
1 day 15 mins
  -> Thanks a lot, James!
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): -2
Undersecretary of Health Prevention and Promotion


Explanation:
This seems to be the way several sources have recorded it in recent months when writing about the COVID virus, or just 'Undersecretary of Health' (https://americanpriority.com/news/mexico-confirms-first-case...


    https://www.newsy-today.com/amlo-confirms-first-case-in-cdmx/
    Reference: http://americanpriority.com/news/mexico-confirms-first-case-...
Victoria Monk
United Kingdom
Local time: 23:48
Native speaker of: English

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
disagree  philgoddard: As Sarah points out, you can't say "health prevention".
11 mins
disagree  AllegroTrans: "health prevention" would mean "encouraging illness"
20 hrs
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1 hr   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +7
subsecretario de Prevención y Promoción de la Salud
deputy secretary/undersecretary for public health


Explanation:
I agree with Chema's translation, but I'm offering this as a more concise shorthand, since this is a news article rather than an official document and you might not want to spell out his long-winded job title.

"Disease prevention and health promotion" is public health.

philgoddard
United States
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 123

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Chema Nieto Castañón: Nice and clear
1 hr
agree  Luis M. Sosa
3 hrs
agree  Robert Carter: For news articles, sure.
8 hrs
agree  Thomas Walker
18 hrs
agree  AllegroTrans: This works and is sufficient here
20 hrs
agree  James A. Walsh
23 hrs
agree  Irene Pomar: Concise, accurate enough for news article.
172 days
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