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Focusing on overall health to combat the loss of independence.
As the leading cause of accidental death among older adults, falls must be better prevented through a comprehensive approach in order to combat the loss of independence. Fall prevention...
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Participation in health programs: moving beyond romantic rhetoric.
The author, a specialist in community-based approaches and health inequalities, examines three key questions raised by participatory practices in health: who participates and what is the...
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Health Promotion Put to the Test in Local Communities
This report examines the territorial approach to health from three perspectives: the first offers a definition of the territory informed by a geographer and an ethnologist; the second...
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Self-esteem and risk-taking: what are we talking about?
This article examines the influence of healthy self-esteem on risk-taking by synthesizing the existing body of knowledge on the subject. The author clarifies the concept of self-esteem,...
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Rural Life and Health [Special Report].
This report, to which the network of health education committees, the Rural Families Association, and the Agricultural Social Mutual Fund contributed, seeks to answer the question: How...
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Risky behavior or... a love of risk?
David Le Breton, a sociologist and anthropologist, has spent years studying the reasons that drive young people to take risks, including through the use of psychoactive substances. He...
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Teenage girls in distress: toward care that better reflects their needs.
As an anthropologist, the author conducted a quantitative survey of about 100 young women aged 14 to 18 regarding their risky behaviors, their self-esteem, and their perception of their...
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When it comes to violence, the most urgent need is for educational initiatives and prevention.
For six months, Anne Tursz coordinated the work of experts on the topic of "Violence and Health" at the request of the Ministry of Health and Solidarity, before drafting a report that...
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A program to build self-esteem in children.
In the 1980s, pediatrician Jacques Fortin, in collaboration with teachers, developed the "Mieux vivre ensemble" program for preschool and elementary school students. This educational...
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If love were told to them...
In the Carpentras region, educators and teachers have been implementing a health education and sexual violence prevention program since 2005, focusing on relationships between boys and...