According to Alfred Spira, director of the Institute for Public Health Research (IReSP), research plays a major role in shedding light on social health inequalities and identifying...

Evaluating an intervention aimed at reducing social inequalities in health is a difficult task, explain Valéry Ridde and Pierre Blaise. Nevertheless, the researchers’ most recent work...

A study conducted in Montreal, Canada, shows that before starting school, some children are vulnerable in terms of health, well-being, and social, emotional, and cognitive skills. And...

The more disadvantaged one’s socioeconomic situation, the poorer one’s health. This “social gradient” is consistently observed across all contexts in scientific studies. The “Gradient”...

Created to coordinate public health initiatives at the regional level, the Regional Health Agencies (ARS) have, as a top priority in their roadmap, the goal of reducing social health...

Health impact assessment is a new strategy for anticipating the effects of any project on public health. In particular, it makes it possible to identify, at an early stage, the...

The first Abena study, conducted in 2004–2005 by the InVS, provided a description of the sociodemographic and economic profiles, dietary habits, and nutritional status of food aid...

Introduction. Data from the 2005 Health Barometer on perceptions, attitudes, and behaviors regarding the use of psychoactive substances allow for analyses based on educational...

Smoking accounts for nearly half of the gap in life expectancy between the most and least advantaged populations, due to higher smoking rates among the latter.

Policies aimed at addressing social inequalities in health cannot be limited to promoting access to rights and healthcare. The city of Poitiers has made its school cafeterias more...