Evaluation is still a relatively new practice that is still taking shape. The diversity of approaches, reference models, and stakeholders, combined with the variety of methods used,...

How should evaluation be defined? What is its purpose? What are the key issues involved? Françoise Jabot, head of evaluation training at the National School of Public Health (ENSP),...

"Traveling people," who number 400,000 in France, remain excluded from preventive care and healthcare services. Their life expectancy is 15 years lower than the national average. Fnasat...

Trying to dissuade young people from listening to amplified music by highlighting the health risks it poses is not effective, emphasizes socio-anthropologist Marc Touché. This expert on...

Drawing on the literature regarding epidemiological studies (both longitudinal and cross-sectional) conducted in Finland, the United Kingdom, the United States, Switzerland, and France...

The author reviews the evolving role of communication within the French Committee for Health Education across all prevention strategies (legislative and regulatory action, public health...

The author reviews the history of initiatives aimed at preventing social problems at the local level and their development following the creation of the Ministry of Urban Affairs,...

The authors, who coordinated the "Living in the Countryside" report with Francine Mullot of the Mutualité sociale agricole, note a lack of information on rural populations (compared to...

Recognizing the wide variety of professionals working on AIDS and STD issues with middle and high school students in the Ain department, as well as the frequent lack of training on...

In Europe, the spread of infectious diseases—linked in particular to the growth of travel (global air travel, open borders)—poses a challenge for public health information. The use of...