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Health Impact Assessment: An Underutilized Tool in Public Health. The APHEIS Example (Air Pollution and Health: A European Information System)
Health Impact Assessment (HIA) is a set of procedures and methods that provides information to decision-makers—both in the health sector and in other fields—about the potential impact an...
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Assessment of the health impacts of particulate matter air pollution in five Spanish cities. APHEIS European Project
Background: The health effects of air pollution have been the subject of numerous studies in recent years, which have made it possible to quantify the association between the two. The...
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On the imprisoned woman and her relationship to her body.
Many female inmates have experienced physical abuse and mistreatment. Their privacy, already violated, is once again compromised under the constant gaze of others; their sensory...
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Prisons: What Role Does Health Promotion Play? : Learn More
To round out our series on health promotion in prisons, we present here a selection of resources in three parts. The first two parts aim to contextualize the concept of health...
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Prisons: What Role Does Health Promotion Play? [Introduction to the Feature]
Introduction to the special report "Prisons: What Role for Health Promotion?" coordinated by Khadoudja Chemlal, hospital physician and scientific advisor on health promotion at the...
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Prevent flood-related injuries.
How do flood victims experience this type of disaster? An ethnologist collected testimonies from sixty people in a village affected by a deadly flood in the Aude region. The practice...
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Trends in lung cancer incidence among young adults in France between 1982 and 2012.
Introduction: Tobacco use is the leading risk factor for lung cancer. Trends in cancer incidence among young adults are rarely studied. This article presents an analysis of trends in...
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Helping Deaf People Achieve Personal Independence [Interview].
Jean-François Labes, who is deaf and serves as president of an association, explains that it is not inevitable that deaf people will be stigmatized and mistreated by society. It is up...
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Preventing School Dropout [Introduction to the Report].
School dropout rates have become a major concern for a growing number of schools; but is this a new phenomenon?