Accidents de la voie publique et inégalités sociales de santé à Cotonou en 2021.

Au Bénin, les accidents de la voie publique sont préoccupants et causent des décès et des blessures graves, surtout chez les motocyclistes. Les inégalités sociales de santé aggravent cette situation en affectant davantage les populations défavorisées. L'objectif de notre étude était de montrer que ces accidents suivent un gradient social, et d'orienter les interventions et les politiques visant à réduire les disparités en matière de sécurité routière.

Prévalence et facteurs associés à la co-consommation d'alcool et de tabac dans la commune de Natitingou, Bénin.

Introduction: La consommation d'alcool et la consommation de tabac entraînent chacune des risques importants pour la santé. L'objectif de cette étude était d'étudier la prévalence de la co-consommation d'alcool et de tabac ainsi que les facteurs associés dans la commune de Natitingou en 2016.

MÉthodes: Il s'agissait d'une étude transversale à caractère analytique.

Factors Associated With Condom Use Among High School Students of Natitingou Agricultural Technical School, Benin, in 2017.

Introduction: HIV/AIDS is one of the most dreaded diseases of this century. Condom use is probably the most effective way to combat the disease. Objective: To study the factors associated with condom use among high school students in Natitingou in 2017.

[Analyze of the performance of procurement and distribution system of antiretroviral, antituberculosis and antimalarials drugs in Benin in 2016].

Objective: We aimed to analyze the performance of procurement and distribution system of antiretroviral, antituberculosis and antimalarial drugs in Benin.

Methods: We carried out a cross-sectional study in 2016. Data on the procurement, storage and distribution of drugs were collected by either individual interview or observation of storage sites at the central procurement center for essential medicines (CAME) in Benin.

[Health promotion in Africa: history and prospects].

Since the Ottawa Charter (1986), the majority of regions of the world has done considerable progress in health promotion (HP) and has got frameworks of reflection, methodologies and tools related to it. In Africa, HP was adopted by the Member States of the WHO regional office of Africa since 2001. However many efforts remain to be deployed at countries' level for its appropriation in the context of the triple burden of communicable diseases, non-communicable diseases and socio-behavioral over the region.

[Fever and malaria in children under 5 years of age in Benin: do we have accurate statistics?].

Introduction: In Benin, mothers generally seek health care for their children with fever and malaria only when complications appear, including severe anemia, convulsions, and coma. Statistics from the national health system are based on consultations at national health care centers and do not take into account existing cases in the community.

Objectives: To determine the prevalence of malaria from the analysis of subjects with fever and their management in two participating villages.

Child malaria in sub-saharan Africa: effective control and prevention require a health promotion approach.

Malaria remains a vital concern of child survival in sub-Saharan Africa despite the existence of effective curative and preventive measures. It is known that child malaria is underpinned by factors such as socioeconomic, cultural, environmental, and so forth, that must be considered simultaneously in order to effectively control it. This study applied to a rural community in Benin (West Africa) the Health Promotion concept (community participation and empowerment, contextualism, intersectorality, multistrategy, equity, and sustainability) to develop a program in order to control child malaria and close the gap of unsuccessful programs.

[Perceptions of parental participation by health professionals in childhood malaria control in Benin].

The aim of this study was to explore and document the perceptions of health professionals regarding parental participation in the fight against child malaria, specifically with regard to fever management, in Benin (West Africa). The findings indicate that community participation in Malaria control in general, and in the case of children in particular, is essential due to the contributing factors surrounding the disease. This form of participation is different from the one recommended and practiced within the structure of the National Health system.

[Childhood fever in a zone of malaria prevalence in Benin: qualitative analysis of factors linked to seeking care].

In Benin, mothers usually go to health facilities when childhood malaria is already in its late stage (severe anaemia, convulsions, unconsciousness). This study was undertaken in a rural area of Benin through a community-based participation action-research aiming to control child malaria with a focus on parental participation. The aim of this research was to better understand the situation with regards to parents' perceptions and perspectives of childhood fever, care seeking behaviour and practices as well as factors that influence the choice of treatment among the various options.

Malaria control among children under five in sub-Saharan Africa: the role of empowerment and parents' participation besides the clinical strategies.

Context: Child malaria remains a vital concern in sub-Saharan Africa in spite of major efforts to control it. The widely advertised best curative and preventive measures are not always accessible.

Issue: This article examines the extent to which parents' perceptions and representations are considered, including their empowerment and participation in interventions aimed at controlling child malaria.

Social inequalities in health from Ottawa to Vancouver: action for fair equality of opportunity.

The authors set out to show that the Ottawa Charter of 1986 has not been sufficiently accepted over the past twenty years, even by those who use it as a strategic tool to guide interventions for reducing social inequalities in health. Although some public health policies do emphasize the reduction of social inequalities in health, only the Ottawa Charter appears to possess the status of an international declaration on the matter. Social inequalities in health are the systematic, avoidable, and unjust differences in health that persist between individuals and sub-groups of a population.

[Towards a new strategy in the fight against smoking in Africa].

Today, the fight against smoking is a vital concern as the epidemic continues to grow along with the heavy consequences, and given in particular that those who are exposed are not only the smokers. The entire world has become aware and recognised the harmfulness of tobacco, and a number of activities have been undertaken, among which can be found those of the International Union for Health Promotion and Education (IUHPE), supported by a wide range of partners. This activity which is primarily aimed at Africa, allowed health professionals from Benin to organise themselves around the success of the 1st Francophone International Seminar on the growing tobacco crisis in order to build upon the foundation which was laid in Ouidah, Benin, in November 2002.