Over the past decade, the internet and social media have revolutionized information and prevention efforts targeting young people. INPES has gradually integrated these new information...

According to a survey conducted by INPES in 2010, more than a quarter of French people have known or currently know someone in their circle of friends and family who has Alzheimer’s...

In France, 89% of people aged 15 to 75 engage in physical activity or sports (1). While such activity plays a key role in maintaining and improving public health, it can have negative...

This thesis is the result of a six-month internship at INPES in 2011. It examines INPES’s communication strategies regarding alcohol aimed at young people and compares them to those...

Alcohol consumption has been steadily declining in France since the 1950s. This decline is primarily due to a decrease in wine consumption, with a particular shift away from table wine...

By analyzing the patterns of use and access to the "Consultations for Young Drug Users" (CJC), established in 2004 to assist young drug users and their families (originally named...

The INPES 2010 Health Barometer provides a detailed overview of trends in smoking prevalence since 2005, the date of the previous survey, and more broadly over the past thirty years....

In 1997, the incidence of Legionnaires' disease in Europe was 3.9 cases per million inhabitants. The lowest incidence rates were reported in Malta (0) and Norway (0.2), and the highest...

Leptospirosis has received little attention in Portugal because it is a rare disease. However, regional disparities in the distribution of the disease and the increase in the number of...

After a First Communion banquet in Benevento, a city of 60,000 in southern Italy, several attendees developed severe symptoms of gastroenteritis. The banquet, attended by about 60...