Proceedings of the symposium organized by Fil Santé Jeunes, an initiative of the Ile-de-France School for Parents and Educators, in October 2010, featuring numerous profiles, reports,...

Oral presentation at the ADELF-SFSP International Conference on "Public Health and Prevention," held in Bordeaux from October 17 to 19, 2013.

Introduction.—In France, the repeated cross-sectional surveys ESCAPAD (Survey on Health and Behaviors during the Defense Readiness Call-up) and Baromètre santé measure the prevalence...

Introduction.—Dropout rates are high in trials involving psychosocially vulnerable populations, yet little is known about the factors contributing to dropout in this context. A better...

The Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion advocated for a broader vision of health and a shift in health services toward greater emphasis on health promotion beyond the provision of...

Introduction.—Patient therapeutic education (PTE) has developed very rapidly over the past decade. It is now included in the Public Health Code. Defining the competencies of PTE...

In light of today’s public health challenges, training is of central importance and must enable professionals to better understand what is happening in France and in other countries....

Among the topics that sparked lively discussion at the Mexico City conference was, without a doubt, circumcision. “To cut or not to cut”—that was indeed the question... The answer...

Communication and social marketing in the service of public health must be approached with the same scientific rigor as other prevention activities. The extremely rapid developments in...