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health professional

health professional

26 3.0
A person trained to give care and advice about people's health
  • noun
  • /hɛlθ prəˈfɛʃənl/
translation icon : profesional de la salud
  • You should seek the advice of a qualified health professional if you're feeling unwell.
  • mental health professionals
  • public health professionals
  • school health professionals

The first one is that it talked about health professionals as being change agents.

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Examples

  • Clients have a right to expect that mental health professionals have some degree of expertise in the interventions they implement.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Administrators, classroom teachers, and mental health professionals from one community agency and five urban elementary schools participated.

    Academic text (2011)
  • You should seek the services of a mental health professional.

  • - Are you a health professional?

  • Contact a mental health professional.

  • My point is there should be more mental health professionals to help people in a crisis.

  • The Ministry has also created a relatively new breed of health professionals called health officers.

    Blog text (13)
  • You're a mental health professional.

  • The program was implemented over one school year by mental health professionals in collaboration with school teachers.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Please see a mental health professional or other healthcare professional ASAP to be evaluated.

Synonyms

health care provider
vshealth professional
32 2.5

Someone or somewhere that gives medical care, for example a doctor

means only a qualified individual working in medicine nursing or allied fields

How Qualified

consultant
537 3.8
specialist
120 3.9
health professional
26 3.0
assistant
833 1.0
trainee
50 2.4

Surface Forms

Morphology

health + professional

The meaning 'a person qualified to practice in a health care profession' is directly derivable from combining 'health' (relating to medical/wellness) with 'professional' (a qualified practitioner). This noun–noun composition is a transparent, cross-linguistic pattern (e.g., Spanish 'profesional de la salud') and would be understandable to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.

Etymology

Health professional joins health (being well) and professional (a trained person who does a job). So it gives the simple image of a trained person who helps people with their health, which is why it means 'a person qualified to work in health care'.