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Pictograms to help patients communicate with their caregivers.
The Assistance publique-Hôpitaux de Paris has created 150 pictograms to help patients with severe communication difficulties interact with healthcare providers. Healthcare providers...
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A visual guide to preventing medication errors.
The Visual Prescription is unique in that it was developed by users in collaboration with professionals at a community center. It enables people who have difficulty reading and/or...
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A city in Quebec is creating public awareness posters featuring people with intellectual disabilities.
In Gatineau, Quebec, people with intellectual disabilities selected the words and images that would help them connect with the messages conveyed by public health posters.
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The Invisibles [Cinésanté].
Sébastien Lifshitz’s 2012 film *Les invisibles*, which has been widely acclaimed and won numerous awards, gives a voice to men and women who speak openly about their homosexuality.
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People with hearing impairments face a real uphill battle. [Interview]
Interview with Dominique Dufournet, president of the Bucodes-SurdiFrance association. Having become hard of hearing following a sudden loss of hearing at age 46, Dominique Dufournet...
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Helping young people develop the skills they need to stay safe online. [Interview]
In Angers, health education professionals, in collaboration with educators, organized a media literacy workshop at a boarding school for deaf and hard-of-hearing youth. The goal was to...
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Stigmatization, homophobia, and scapegoats.
The suicide rate is higher among young people who are discovering that they are gay or bisexual. The realization of this "difference" from prevailing societal norms causes suffering...
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Evaluation of a safer sex brochure (early 1990)
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Youth: Sex education is a prerequisite for prevention.
Through an overview of the changes made to AIDS prevention efforts targeting young people since the start of the epidemic, the authors—a physician and the director of the Regional...
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Alma: Listening to the Plight of Elderly Victims of Abuse.
The Alma association has established fifty-two "counseling centers" across France to assist elderly and disabled people who are victims of abuse. Alma is working to break the code of...