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“Let’s listen to pregnant women and change our practices!”
Interview with Françoise Molénat, head of the early childhood unit in the Department of Child Psychology at Montpellier University Hospital. President of the French Society of Perinatal...
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Giving Birth at Home? A Comparison Between France and the Netherlands.
Should France reintroduce home births for low-risk pregnancies? Should it expand birth centers where midwives play the leading role? The Netherlands has done so; one in three births...
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Birth: How Quebec Supports Families.
This is one of Quebec’s unique strengths in health education: an innovative program supports the most vulnerable families before and after the birth of their child. A key feature of the...
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Take socioeconomic factors into account to reduce inequality.
Social inequalities in health are not inevitable; to reduce them, we must address the major socioeconomic "determinants" such as education, housing, employment and working conditions,...
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We work with homeless people to help them reconnect with their history.
How can we improve healthcare and living conditions for homeless people? Three experts—Vincent Girard, a psychiatrist, and doctors Pascale Estecahandy and Pierre Chauvin—submitted a...
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A Sociological Approach to Breastfeeding in France.
While breastfeeding is a personal choice, it also has strong cultural and social dimensions. Breastfeeding rates vary considerably by social class: 80% of female executives breastfeed,...
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The State of Breastfeeding in France.
Why is the rate of breastfeeding in France among the lowest in Europe? Marc Pilliot, a pediatrician and president of the French Breastfeeding Coordination Group, outlines the main...
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The right to breastfeed at work: poorly adapted, rarely exercised.
French law and the Labor Code stipulate that women may devote one hour of their daily work time to breastfeeding and that any company with more than 100 employees must provide a...
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WHO European Network of Healthy Cities: 1,300 members in 29 countries.
Following the signing of the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion in 1986, the European Office of the World Health Organization (WHO) established new partnerships, particularly to address...
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Health in Urban Policy: A History and Future Prospects.
It is only in the last dozen years or so that health has become a central issue in urban policy. Catherine Richard, of the General Secretariat of the Interministerial Committees on...
