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Socioeconomic challenges: their impact on health and education.
According to several recent studies, the proportion of students facing financial hardship has increased over the past decade. This growing financial insecurity has consequences for their...
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The Role of Migrant Organizations in AIDS Prevention.
What role do associations of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa play in prevention? Catherine Chardin has been working with these associations for ten years; she traces the history of...
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Health education for migrants: under what conditions?
Is it possible to provide preventive care and health education to migrants? It is difficult for those who lack access to basic necessities: housing and food. It is possible for migrants...
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Improving the emotional and sexual well-being of homeless people.
A team of researchers—sociologists and an anthropologist—spent time listening to forty homeless people to better understand their emotional and sexual lives. The results of their study...
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In Besançon, a "safe house" for troubled teens.
In Besançon, a Teen Center has been open since 2005, established on the initiative of child and adolescent psychiatrists at the local hospital. Its strength lies in bringing together...
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Supporting migrants as they cope with the effects of displacement and exile.
Uprooting and exile have significant physical and psychological consequences for many migrants. This makes it absolutely essential for health and social service professionals to take...
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How Tunisian teachers view "health."
In Tunisia, health education is part of the primary and secondary school curricula. In practice, however, teachers are not trained in this concept and tend to take a very medical...
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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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“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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Evaluation of Innovative Initiatives: The Case of Aquitaine.
How do funders view the evaluation of public health initiatives and programs? What do they expect from such evaluations? How do they themselves evaluate the projects submitted to them?...