In Lyon, parents with irregular work schedules are benefiting from the first daycare center in the Rhône-Alpes region that provides overnight care. Named Mirabilis—after a colorful...

Can listening to music at very high volume levels damage hearing? Scientific studies are scarce, but the existing literature nevertheless concludes that there is a real risk. Among...

Trying to dissuade young people from listening to amplified music by highlighting the health risks it poses is not effective, emphasizes socio-anthropologist Marc Touché. This expert on...

In late 2006, the Agi-son association distributed 600,000 pairs of earplugs at the entrance to concerts. France Acouphènes supports people suffering from tinnitus. Several other...

"Traveling people," who number 400,000 in France, remain excluded from preventive care and healthcare services. Their life expectancy is 15 years lower than the national average. Fnasat...

How should evaluation be defined? What is its purpose? What are the key issues involved? Françoise Jabot, head of evaluation training at the National School of Public Health (ENSP),...

On what theoretical foundations and frameworks should health education initiatives be evaluated? Chantal Vandoorne analyzes the unique nature of health education, which cannot be...

Evaluation is still a relatively new practice that is still taking shape. The diversity of approaches, reference models, and stakeholders, combined with the variety of methods used,...

Is it appropriate to evaluate all health education initiatives? Should we always hire an external professional evaluator? Doesn’t evaluation risk diluting or standardizing an initiative?...

First mentioned during the Han Dynasty in the 2nd century, in connection with the establishment of a civil service, performance evaluation became widespread in the 18th century with the...