The Vaucluse Family Planning Association received an award from the Fondation de France for its program "Handicap et alors ?" (So What If There's a Disability?), which addresses the...

In the Reims school district, teachers and health professionals receive specialized training to provide sex education in middle and high schools. At a rural middle school, an evaluation...

The rapid growth in French tourism abroad poses a public health challenge. The "Tourism Demand Monitoring" survey conducted by Sofres on behalf of the Ministry of Tourism makes it...

Background. - The objectives of this study are, first, to estimate the reported coverage of breast and cervical cancer screening over a two-year period and, second, to identify the main...

To combat carbon monoxide (CO) poisoning, which causes approximately 100 deaths and several thousand hospitalizations each year, a national CO poisoning surveillance system has been...

Part documentary, part fiction, Claire Simon’s *Les Bureaux de Dieu* features real interviews between young people and family planning counselors. The film explores women’s desire to...

In France, emergency contraception is often misunderstood and used improperly. Misinformation continues to circulate about these pills, which are incorrectly referred to as...

In French-speaking Switzerland, educators who have undergone two years of training visit schools to teach sex education, whereas in German-speaking Switzerland, teachers generally handle...

According to the first "Environmental Health Barometer" survey, published in July 2008 by INPES, the French consider themselves fairly well-informed about environmental health risks, but...

In Belgium, indoor air quality testing services, alerted by doctors, visit the homes of families suffering from health problems. They take samples to identify the causes of the health...