Funding of child abuse evaluations: survey of child abuse evaluation programs.

This article delineates the current fiscal management and reimbursement for child abuse examinations. These financial issues are high priority for child abuse programs because most programs lack the revenues to meet the demands for service, education, advocacy and research. Programs may share medical protocols and standards but have yet to share management solutions.

[An overview on palliative care and the end of life. Results of a survey conducted in a sample of the French population].

Objective: To have an overview of the French population concerning palliative care.

Method: French opinion poll, based on a questionnaire submitted to 302 persons recruited at random in the street, in several regions of France. It included questions concerning the representation of pain, the sick body, death, the end of life and palliative care.