The city of La Roche-sur-Yon has implemented a comprehensive program to prevent excessive drinking among young people: training for educators and teachers, prevention initiatives at...

In response to reports of excessive alcohol consumption in Montpellier, a mobile team of three young outreach workers patrols the city center at night to spread a message of prevention....

In the Aquitaine region, health workshops designed to benefit people in need were organized based on a set of specific guidelines that included an ethical component. These workshops were...

Admitting they were wrong in order to start over in a different direction: that is the courageous stance taken by evaluators in Brussels. Tasked with supporting the evaluation of...

How do funders view the evaluation of public health initiatives and programs? What do they expect from such evaluations? How do they themselves evaluate the projects submitted to them?...

In this article, based on a presentation given by Réal Morin at the INPES Prevention Days on March 29 and 30, 2007, the author—Scientific Director at the Institut national de santé...

How do pregnant women experience the new early prenatal consultation with a midwife? Here is a summary of two testimonials collected by Dr. Michel Dugnat’s team. In both cases, the...

Interview with Françoise Molénat, head of the early childhood unit in the Department of Child Psychology at Montpellier University Hospital. President of the French Society of Perinatal...

Should France reintroduce home births for low-risk pregnancies? Should it expand birth centers where midwives play the leading role? The Netherlands has done so; one in three births...

This is one of Quebec’s unique strengths in health education: an innovative program supports the most vulnerable families before and after the birth of their child. A key feature of the...