[School nurses in France’s Éducation nationale: A mixed study on education and health promotion practices].

School nurses in France’s Éducation nationale are a specific community within the education sector, entrusted with the mission of education and health promotion, thus requiring an adaptation of their role, their status, and their professional practices. The literature emphasizes the link between knowledge, systems of social representation, and standards of practices that revolve around individual conceptions. Based on a mixed methodology, the study focuses on the analysis of the results of a qualitative study through interviews with a sample of the population, followed by a national survey using questionnaires.

The impact of social inequalities on children's knowledge and representation of health and cancer.

Unlabelled: Reducing inequalities in the field of cancer involves studying the knowledge and mental representations of cancer among children. A qualitative study was conducted on 191 children aged 9 to 12 using the "write and draw" technique to get spontaneous mental representations of "healthy things", "unhealthy things" and "cancer". We grouped the voluntary schools according to two deprivation levels.

Occupational status as a determinant of mental health inequities in French young people: is fairness needed? Results of a cross-sectional multicentre observational survey.

Background: Employment conditions are associated with health inequities. In 2013, French young people had the highest unemployment rate and among those who worked as salaried workers most of them had temporary job. The purpose of the study was to assess mental health state of French young people through the prism of their occupational status and to measure whether occupational status is a determinant of health inequities.

[Sex education : representations of 13- to 15-year-old junior high school children and slow learners].

In France, the National Education system has attributed an important health and sex education role to its teachers, based on a global and positive vision of sexuality Parents, teachers, public services and specialized resources each have a role to play in sex education for children and adolescents so that each young person can receive an education allowing him or her to enjoy a healthy sexuality. This study investigated the individual representations of sexuality, declared practices and knowledge of junior high schoolchildren and Section d'Enseignement G6n6ral et Professionnel Adapt6 (SEGPA) students, a structure for children with serious learning difficulties. The study methodology was based on administration of questionnaires (n = 524) to the two cohorts concerned.

[Teacher educators and health education: from their concepts to their professional identity].

Introduction: The objective of this study was to determine why some teacher educators use health education actions as part of their teacher training.

Methods: We therefore studied the educators' discourse in order to identify factors affecting declared practices and adhesion to health education training. The study was conducted in two steps.

[A participatory approach to general health promotion in secondary schools: "diagnosanté" in the Rhône-Alpes region].

A diagnosis questionnaire ("diagnosanté", or health diagnosis program) was administered in 10 secondary schools in the Rhône-Alpes region of France. The study was based on a sample of 2,553 students. The health diagnosis program includes questions about lifestyle, the environment, risk behaviors, emotional life and self-esteem.

In search of a health education model: teachers' conceptions in four Mediterranean countries.

School programs are defined to promote the health of the pupils and to develop their competencies so that they can adopt behaviors favorable to their health. With the European project FP6 Biohead-Citizen (2004-2007), we analyzed the conceptions of teachers as regards health education, in France, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia, in reference to the biomedical model and the social health model. These four countries were selected because their school curricula represented different models of health education.

[School nurses: representations and practices in health education].

A survey of nurses (n = 188) from the National Education for the Academies of Lyon and Clermont-Ferrand highlights the heterogeneity of their representations and professional practices. These results underline the link between individual conceptions and the nature of the practices being used, and they show the impact of training and experience acquired in the school setting with respect to various practices and the difficulties they encounter in the fulfillment of their objectives as school nurses. The specificity of the school nurse profession is not necessarily solely related to the provision of care, but rather it is more accurately articulated around a set of educational tasks and goals, without of course being in a competitive position with the educational disciplines.

School health promotion: organization of services and roles of health professionals in seven European countries.

Background: This comparative study is intended to provide a better understanding of how health promotion services are organized in school settings in Europe and to show how health professionals involved outside or within the school setting help to improve young people's health.

Methods: This study was based on an analysis of school health policies and the organization of school health services, where these existed, as well as on interviews with health and education professionals. The countries concerned were Belgium (French-speaking community), Denmark, France, Spain (Catalonia), Switzerland (Jura), Poland and Portugal.

[Impact of teachers' conceptions on sex education in four Mediterranean countries.].

Nowadays, sex education contributes to public health not only with regard to the prevention of HIV/AIDS, other sexually transmitted infections and sex abuse, but it is also concerned with addressing aspects such as interpersonal relationships and psychosocial implications. The school setting has emerged as a unique environment for access to information and scientific knowledge that contribute to better understanding of the various dimensions of sexuality. Teachers' and future teachers' conceptions about sex education are analysed in this paper.

[Opinions, perceptions and description of cannabis amongst future health educators in training in France].

In France, the number of cannabis users has doubled over the last ten years. The groups most affected are 18-25 year old adults in higher education. This study involved 300 persons currently undergoing core health education training (79 teachers, 135 nurses and 86 social workers).

[Perspectives on junior high school students' well-being according to members of the educational community: an exploratory study].

The objective of this study was to explore descriptions and portrayals of students' well-being developed by members of the educational community. Fourteen semi-structured interviews were conducted in a secondary school in Burgundy (France). The results reveal that the educational staff and the school in general do not pay much attention to the students' physiological needs or their most basic fundamental needs.