Knowledge and use of the English language by healthcare and social services professionals in Quebec : Language, determinant of health status and of services' quality

The percentages observed in the Montréal region heavily influence the province’s overall result, while 26.1% of The selected professions are general practitioners, Montréal doctors are English speaking according to nursing staff, psychologists and social workers, and other the FOLS variable, compared to 22.3% of the general healthcare professionals. [...] This situation is repeated in all regions of Québec, including the Montréal region, and is particularly With regard to English knowledge, one nurse in four pronounced in western Québec (Outaouais and Abitibi) in eastern Québec, the Québec City region, and the where only 5.2% of nursing staff’s FOLS is English, rest of Québec states having such knowledge and the compared to 13.3% for the population [...] Additionally, the regions with the highest percentages of English as the FOLS—Montréal, the west, and Estrie and the south—all show significantly lower percentages of English-speaking psychologists and social workers, (Graph 5). [...] With regard to English knowledge among other healthcare professionals, the east, Québec City and surrounding According to 2006 census data, 9.9% of other healthcare areas, and the rest of Québec show somewhat low professionals in Québec have English as their first official percentages, ranging from 26% to 33%, while the other language spoken (FOLS), which is lower than the overall regions show per [...] The only statistic we found shows an absolute increase of There was a relative drop in the percentage of healthcare 4.2% in the number of general practitioners and 11.2% professionals, all professions combined, who used in the number of nurses4 (St-Pierre and Labbé).