Since the 1960s, the overall trend in alcohol consumption levels, as estimated from sales data, has been downward (OFDT). While consumption data from the INPES Health Barometer confirm...

In France, national media campaigns aimed specifically at young people to prevent alcohol consumption are relatively rare. Two government agencies are working on this issue: La...

At a time when it is mostly "delinquent" teenagers and their "neglectful" parents who are making headlines, what urgency is there to examine approaches to health education for young...

The goal of a new series of booklets on youth health that INPES is set to launch is to provide frontline workers with a tool to support prevention efforts. The first booklet will be...

According to the INPES Health Barometer survey, 10.5% of boys and 4% of girls aged 12 to 25 who are currently in school have committed an act of violence—such as hitting or physically...

ESPAD, ESCAPAD, HBSC: these acronyms refer to several major French and European surveys focused on young people’s health behaviors. While ESPAD and ESCAPAD focus largely on...

Following its series on water, earth, and air, the National Institute for Prevention and Health Education (INPES) has just developed and published a new health education resource kit...

In recent years, people with cancer in France have experienced less isolation than in the past. Two favorable factors have come together: on the one hand, collective advocacy by...

Santé publique France studies the health attitudes and behaviors of the French population through the Health Barometer, a survey that includes a specific module on the use of the...

Placed in care and often shuffled from one program to another, young people living on the streets share the common experience of having endured numerous breakdowns in their...