How can we improve healthcare and living conditions for homeless people? Three experts—Vincent Girard, a psychiatrist, and doctors Pascale Estecahandy and Pierre Chauvin—submitted a...

Social inequalities in health are not inevitable; to reduce them, we must address the major socioeconomic "determinants" such as education, housing, employment and working conditions,...

The agency's strength lies in its integration of public health, prevention, and health safety—from surveillance to intervention. In particular, the ANSP should provide us with a valuable...

Established in 2014, the Interministerial Committee on Health works to ensure that health education and health promotion are integrated into all public policies. It also plays a key role...

Social workers receive training that is too compartmentalized, and health promotion struggles to find a place in their curriculum. To date, networking is the only way to build...

Marcel Jaeger provides an overview of the history and current state of social work in France. While social workers already collaborate extensively with healthcare professionals, he...

In France, several thousand professionals in the health, social services, and education sectors are tasked with promoting public health as part of their duties. Definition of health...

In 2010, the UNIRéS association, INPES, and other partners developed an online course on health education and promotion for school-based professionals. To date, 1,000 students from six...

In the Limousin region, home care professionals are trained with a genuine focus on "health promotion"—both to identify and build on their skills, and to better understand the concept of...

Starting in 2007, the CNSA and INPES worked to establish a training program designed to strengthen home care aides’ skills in maintaining and protecting the independence of older adults....