Of Senegalese origin—with a Senegalese Fulani mother and a Senegalese-Mauritanian Wolof father—Nafissatou Fall was born in Cameroon and lived there until the age of 14, during which time...

One in ten older adults or people with disabilities is believed to be a victim of abuse. The experts who worked on the Tursz report recommend several immediate measures: informing these...

In Marseille, support groups bring together patients and caregivers to resolve conflicts and give patients a voice. Psychiatric patients express the suffering—and thus the violence—they...

How do staff members in institutions become victims of violence? How do these institutions themselves generate violence? Omar Brixi, a physician and public health professor who chairs...

s.02As chair of the "Violence, Work, Employment, and Health" commission for the Tursz report, psychoanalyst and psychiatrist Christophe Dejours recommends, among other measures,...

Interview with Dr. Etienne G. Krug, Director of the Department of Violence and Injury Prevention at the World Health Organization (WHO). Violence claims as many victims worldwide as...

Being available whenever needed while also serving as a long-term health educator for students: this is the dual mission—often a challenge to balance—of the 6,100 school nurses. Mabrouk...

For two years, social science researchers observed the conditions under which emergency psychiatric requests from patients with mental health disorders were received and handled. Many of...

What kinds of care and psychiatric treatment are available for adolescents facing the greatest challenges? In the Île-de-France region, two prevention and follow-up networks—bringing...

The French—and French women in particular—do not get enough physical activity. To encourage them to be more active, we need to address all the individual factors involved: confidence,...