Saint-Étienne is experimenting with a network-based prevention approach.

Can eating disorders in teenage girls be prevented? The Psychiatry and Addiction Department at Saint-Étienne University Hospital provides day-to-day care for patients with anorexia. For the department, prevention means, above all, listening, establishing a network of professionals, and highlighting the difficulty teenage girls face in being themselves—precisely because of their low self-esteem.

Author(s): Billard Stéphane, Okala Jean, Szabo Linda, Estour Bruno, Lang François

Publishing year: 2008

Pages: 28-29

Men's Health, 2008, n° 394, p. 28-29

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