The Influence of Educational Determinants on Children's Health: A Scoping Review of Reviews.

Education is one of the most important social determinants shaping the development and wellbeing of children. The purpose of this review of reviews is to inform policymakers, practitioners and public health stakeholder involved in developing child-friendly policies outside of the healthcare system. We carried out a scoping review of reviews.

[Can health impact assessment be conducted on the political platforms of presidential election candidates?].

Health impact assessment (HIA) is defined as a method by which a policy, program or project may be judged as to its potential effects on the health of a population in order to mitigate negative impacts and strengthen the positive ones. During the 2017 French presidential elections, health promotion actors decided to conduct an HIA on the political platforms of the five main candidates. The assessment of each political platform was conducted by 7 evaluators and reviewed by 35 health promotion experts.

Population health intervention research: the place of theories.

Background: An international workshop on population health intervention research (PHIR) was organized to foster exchanges between experts from different disciplines and different fields. This paper aims to summarize the discussions around some of the issues addressed: (1) the place of theories in PHIR, (2) why theories can be useful, and (3) how to choose and use the most relevant of them in evaluating PHIR.

Methods: The workshop included formal presentations by participants and moderated discussions.

[Proportionate universalism: Towards “real equality” of prevention in France].

Although their design may feature a considerable amount of universalism, prevention strategies often produce results that are socially and/or spatially differentiated. This differentiation process can induce social or territorial gradients of access to and/or effectiveness of prevention and, in turn, worsen health inequalities. This process also accentuates the gap between the principles of certain public policies and their practical implementation, raising the question of the real benefit of these policies for beneficiaries.

[Health promotion at last? Trends in French health education over the past decade].

Major legislative, structural and organizational changes have had a significant impact on public health in France over the past decade. This paper examines the effects of these changes in terms of the development of health education over the same period. Six significant trends were identified: the development of research in health education, the emphasis on health education as a strategy for reducing health and social inequalities, the emergence of health education as a field of intervention, the emergence of therapeutic patient education, the unprecedented economic difficulties of health education associations, and the changing perception of health education among public health authorities.

[Attitudes of professionals towards prevention practices and guidelines].

The prevention of alcohol abuse among adolescents is a political priority. Local prevention practitioners have campaigned extensively in schools and the public arena. Scientific guidelines aimed at improving the efficiency of alcohol abuse prevention have also been widely promoted.

[Opinion of the National Federation of Education and Health Promotion on report "New approaches to public health prevention"].

In 2009, the Center for Strategic Analysis initiated a study, entitled Neurosciences and Public Policies, to assess the use of neurosciences in prevention policy. Subsequently, a report highlighted the inefficiency of the "traditional" prevention programs and the potential contribution of neurosciences to defining a new prevention approach. For the French National Federation for Health Education and Promotion, health promotion cannot be limited to a "counter-manipulation" of consumers confronted with marketing strategies from the food and tobacco industries.

[Influenza vaccination: was it relevant to use fear?].

The rightfulness and relevance of the use of fear appeals in prevention are not debated in France. However, it seems that the recent failure of the H1N1 influenza vaccination, following many political and journalistic speeches mainly focused on the fear of the illness and its consequences, should challenge policy-makers about the choice of this communication means. Other methods, founded on the results of an "emotional epidemiology" of the epidemic and based on community health approaches, could have been usefully applied.

Lifestyle patterns concerning sports and physical activity, and perceptions of health.

Objectives: To explore the perceptions of health and physical activity, and the associations between these two areas from a theoretical lifestyle perspective.

Methods: Data was collected by means of a self-administered questionnaire, among 3019 adults attending centres for preventive medicine in France. Correspondence analysis examined the significance of the relationships between perceptions of health and perceptions of sports and physical activity.