French Guiana is the French department most severely affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic. Despite undeniable progress over the past thirty years, the epidemic remains at an alarming...

Educating children to reduce obesity is the goal of the Carambole interregional program, which has been piloted for three years in the French West Indies and French Guiana. This health...

In the Lille area, at the request of a member company, the occupational health team stepped in to launch an initiative aimed at encouraging employees to engage in physical activity....

In Lille, the hospitality industry turned to occupational health services to better prevent workplace risks among its employees. Doctors assessed these risks, gathered feedback from...

To prevent substance abuse (alcohol and illicit drugs) among its municipal employees, the city of Nantes has implemented a comprehensive prevention plan: creation of a peer support...

For general practitioners, addressing alcohol use with their patients remains difficult and taboo, and they are not always prepared to do so. In the Champagne-Ardenne region, doctors...

In the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region, a call center was opened in 2006 at the initiative of the Institute of Occupational Health in Northern France, in partnership with the Lille Regional...

At a middle school in the Marne region, after learning of some students’ distress, teachers and school staff launched “recré-philo” sessions. The goals are to encourage students to...

The health plan developed by the Strasbourg Urban Community aims to integrate health into all policy initiatives. The goal is to address the determinants of health—urban planning,...

As a member of the WHO Healthy Cities initiative, the city of Nantes has established a local health promotion network. The mental health network brings together healthcare...