Developing and Validating an Individual-Level Deprivation Index for Children's Health in France.

Background: Deprivation generates many health inequalities. This has to be taken in account to enhance appropriate access to care. This study aimed to develop and validate a pediatric individual-level index measuring deprivation, usable in clinical practice and in public health.

Effets d'un programme de développement des compétences psychosociales en milieu scolaire : Le PROgramme de Développement Affectif et Social (PRODAS) : Revue de la littérature.

Objectif: Le Programme de Développement Affectif et Social (PRODAS) est un programme de développement des compétences psychosociales des enfants ou adolescents mis en œuvre depuis 2005 en milieu scolaire par une association française (le Planning familial). L'objectif de cet article était de synthétiser les connaissances sur les effets de ce programme, afin de contribuer à l'étude de sa transférabilité.

MÉthodes: La revue de littérature réalisée a porté sur des études datant de 1970 à 2017.

Descriptive study of young disabled children aged 2-6, enrolled in mainstream schools, and benefiting from special needs assistants in the Bouches-du-Rhône in 2014.

Background: Since the law of February 11, 2005, in France, the number of children with disabilities enrolled in ordinary schools has increased steadily. As a result, the amount of personal support provided by a special needs assistant (personal support) is also increasing. The aim of the study was to describe the diseases and impairments of disabled children aged 2-6, enrolled in mainstream schools and benefiting from personal support for schooling by special needs assistants in the Bouches-du-Rhône (France) in 2014.

[Expectation of patients and caregivers about patient education for immune thrombocytopenia].

Introduction: Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) durably affects quality of life in patients. Patient education aims at improving their self-care and psychosocial skills, allowing them be more autonomous, to prevent avoidable complications, and to maintain or improve quality of life. The aim of this study was to assess patients' and caregivers' expectations regarding patient education in ITP.

Influence of Socioeconomic Context on the Rehospitalization Rates of Infants Born Preterm.

Objective: To investigate the impact of social inequalities on the risk of rehospitalization in the first year after discharge from the neonatal unit in a population of preterm-born children.

Study Design: Preterm infants were included if they were born between 2006 and 2013 at ≤32 + 6 weeks of gestation and who received follow-up in a French regional medical network with a high level of healthcare. Socioeconomic context was estimated using a neighborhood-based socioeconomic deprivation index.

Improving access and continuity of care for homeless people: how could general practitioners effectively contribute? Results from a mixed study.

Objectives: To analyse the views of general practitioners (GPs) about how they can provide care to homeless people (HP) and to explore which measures could influence their views.

Design: Mixed-methods design (qualitative -> quantitative (cross-sectional observational) → qualitative). Qualitative data were collected through semistructured interviews and through questionnaires with closed questions.

[Evaluation of the action « M'T Dents » for 6-year-old schoolchildren on two deprived neighborhoods in Marseille, France].

Background: This study aims to analyze the effects of the national program for individual dental prevention "M'T Dents" to 6-years-old children living in the neighborhoods of deprived areas Saint-Mauront and Belle de Mai from 2009 to 2012 (Marseille, France). These children having received an additional collective awareness and individual monitoring as part of the experimental program of health promotion "La Santé à Saint Mauront - Belle de Mai: on s’y met tous!" led by the PACA Regional Health Agency.

Materials And Methods: Awareness sessions in oral hygiene were led in CP grades of 5 schools and each child was then followed and encouraged to resort to dentist.