Article
French
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Abstract
Our study focuses on health mediation as an answer to the challenges of reducing social inequalities in health, a key goal of the 2016 Health System Modernization Act. Mediation in health requires that two “Social worlds”, the health professions and social action, sometimes distant from one another, meet each other and collaborate. Assuming that training would be a lever to facilitate their collaboration, the aim of the research is to characterize the current offer of training in the sphere of social and health mediation, to identify unmet needs and social innovation proposals that can respond to them. Our methods of investigation are based on a three-fold collection of quantitative and qualitative data: a first-hand literature review, an inventory of trainings in the national territory, focus groups and interviews with mediators and institutions working in this domain. Our results show that a certain number of obstacles tend to keep partitions between the health and social “worlds” including a strong asymmetry of the supply of training to the benefit of the social sector, an unequal territorial distribution and a heterogeneity of their contents. The expressed needs make it possible to advance a certain number of consensual principles related to social innovation to consolidate cooperation between social and health professionals.