As the leading cause of accidental death among older adults, falls must be better prevented through a comprehensive approach in order to combat the loss of independence. Fall...

The author, a specialist in community-based approaches and health inequalities, examines three key questions raised by participatory practices in health: who participates and what is...

This report examines the territorial approach to health from three perspectives: the first offers a definition of the territory informed by a geographer and an ethnologist; the second...

This article examines the influence of healthy self-esteem on risk-taking by synthesizing the existing body of knowledge on the subject. The author clarifies the concept of...

This report, to which the network of health education committees, the Rural Families Association, and the Agricultural Social Mutual Fund contributed, seeks to answer the question: How...

For several decades, Brazil has implemented a strategy to promote breastfeeding as part of its public health policy. This comprehensive program includes media campaigns, training for...

Interview with Jean-Pierre Poulain. In his latest book, *Sociology of Obesity*, this socio-anthropologist specializing in food emphasizes the importance of studying perceptions of...

Interview with Jean-Paul Moatti, professor of economics and director of the Inserm-IRD research unit “Economic and Social Sciences, Health Systems and Society,” Mediterranean Unit....

Interview with Laïla Loste, coordinator of the "Chroniques associés" coalition of organizations and project manager at AIDES. Between 9 and 28 million French people live with a chronic...

Social inequalities in health are not inevitable; to reduce them, we must address the major socioeconomic "determinants" such as education, housing, employment and working conditions,...