Admitting they were wrong in order to start over in a different direction: that is the courageous stance taken by evaluators in Brussels. Tasked with supporting the evaluation of...

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 this article, based on a presentation given by Réal Morin at the INPES Prevention Days on March 29 and 30, 2007, the author—Scientific Director at the Institut national de santé...

How do pregnant women experience the new early prenatal consultation with a midwife? Here is a summary of two testimonials collected by Dr. Michel Dugnat’s team. In both cases, the...

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...

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...

This is one of Quebec’s unique strengths in health education: an innovative program supports the most vulnerable families before and after the birth of their child. A key feature of the...

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,...

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...

While breastfeeding is a personal choice, it also has strong cultural and social dimensions. Breastfeeding rates vary considerably by social class: 80% of female executives breastfeed,...