At the Cologne Psychiatric Clinic, healthcare staff are trained in intercultural communication, and professional interpretation and mediation services are available to improve care for...

Hans Verrept notes that in Belgium, the healthcare system functions less effectively for the immigrant population, which suffers from poorer health. In response to this situation of...

For this special report on health mediation, we offer a collection of resources organized into seven categories: general information; cross-cultural mediation and vulnerable populations;...

The West Guyana Hospital Center (CHOG) in Saint-Laurent-du-Maroni employs four health mediators in the mobile units of the Healthcare Access Clinics (PASS) and the mobile healthcare...

In 2020, the lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated the vulnerability of the most marginalized people in French Guiana by making it even more difficult for them to access...

In France, 800,000 people are victims of sexual violence each year. This issue of *La Santé en action* brings together some twenty experts and presents an overview of current knowledge...

How can we ensure that a public health intervention is effective? What key principles must be implemented to ensure that a program has a positive impact on populations? This special...

The main feature of this issue focuses on perinatal care in some of France’s overseas departments and regions: the French West Indies and French Guiana. The next issue will focus on...

How can we reconcile ethics with public health, population health considerations, and health promotion? Some thirty experts, social science researchers, and practitioners in the field...

Effective interventions exist to prevent suicide, as demonstrated by the scientific literature. This finding has led public authorities and public health professionals to adopt this...