A team of researchers—sociologists and an anthropologist—spent time listening to forty homeless people to better understand their emotional and sexual lives. The results of their study...

In Besançon, a Teen Center has been open since 2005, established on the initiative of child and adolescent psychiatrists at the local hospital. Its strength lies in bringing together...

Uprooting and exile have significant physical and psychological consequences for many migrants. This makes it absolutely essential for health and social service professionals to take...

In Tunisia, health education is part of the primary and secondary school curricula. In practice, however, teachers are not trained in this concept and tend to take a very medical...

Should France reintroduce home births for low-risk pregnancies? Should it expand birth centers where midwives play the leading role? The Netherlands has done so; one in three births...

Interview with Françoise Molénat, head of the early childhood unit in the Department of Child Psychology at Montpellier University Hospital. President of the French Society of Perinatal...

How do funders view the evaluation of public health initiatives and programs? What do they expect from such evaluations? How do they themselves evaluate the projects submitted to them?...

In the Aquitaine region, health workshops designed to benefit people in need were organized based on a set of specific guidelines that included an ethical component. These workshops were...

For Louise Potvin, evaluation is the key element—"the science of action"—that will drive the evolution of health promotion practices. It is the recognition of innovation that fuels the...

Is it appropriate to evaluate all health education initiatives? Should we always hire an external professional evaluator? Doesn’t evaluation risk diluting or standardizing an initiative?...