Housing conditions play a major role in children’s health. The number of families with children who are homeless has increased. Substandard housing often involves multiple risks:...

Quebec has established early childhood centers—childcare facilities for children under the age of 5—with a twofold objective: to promote children’s development and to enable women to...

Among the topics that sparked lively discussion at the Mexico City conference was, without a doubt, circumcision. “To cut or not to cut”—that was indeed the question... The answer...

Communication and social marketing in the service of public health must be approached with the same scientific rigor as other prevention activities. The extremely rapid developments in...

Many countries, including France and Quebec, are examining the structure and functions of expert panels and committees. This process takes into account the various social and health...

Analyzing the dynamics of the interaction between work and health among professionals with disabilities requires recognizing that this interaction may be shaped by social processes....

The Environmental Health Barometer was modeled after the Health Barometers launched in 1992. It is therefore a repeated cross-sectional telephone survey based on a probability sample....

As of June 30, 2007, the French Regulatory Authority for Electronic Communications and Postal Services (Arcep, formerly known as ART) reported more than 52 million mobile phone...

The Health Barometers were established in the early 1990s. For nearly twenty years, these epidemiological surveillance surveys have made it possible to track the main behaviors,...

The information the public receives about health risks—and, in particular, about lifestyle-related cancer risk factors—is a key driver—though not the only one—of health behaviors and,...