[How tango dance could improve erotical skills?].

The connection that should necessarily establish the tango dancers for performing the act of tango could prove to be an ideal therapeutic setting to work interpersonal, communicative and erotic skills. Indeed, the requirement of tango of grasping all at once, the intention and the gesture (motor registry), the vision, the hearing and the proprioception (sensory register), as well as acknowledgement of the emotion produced in his own body and in of his/her partner, has great benefit.

[Public health and sexuality].

The paper questions the legitimacy and relevance of a potential emergence of any public health policies relating to sexology, as they exist for most of the major medical issues. It discusses the two major areas of intervention of sexology namely problems related to access to pleasure on the one hand, violence, abuse and other sexual perversions on the other hand. The legitimacy and relevance of public health policy to prevent the latter, i.

[Educational strategies and tools in a public health program at the University of Geneva].

In the Swiss context, the newly developed MPH programme at the University of Geneva is experimental in educational matters. Indeed the programme is fully learner-centered and community-oriented. Throughout the curriculum students plan, implement and evaluate intervention programmes or/and research projects related to health problems of the communities they are in charge of.

Malnutrition of children in Sikasso (Mali): prevalence and socio-economic determinants.

Background: Malnutrition of children is a major public health problem in many African countries. Despite a relatively favourable geographical situation, the prevalence of malnutrition is high in the Sikasso region (Mali).

Methods: Survey repeated annually during 5 years, to a sample of 491 families living in Sikasso.