This article offers a preliminary reflection for historical research on a hitherto little considered aspect of Italian environmentalism: what I will call “work environmentalism”, i.e. the struggle for health in the working class’s working and living environments. History starts from a meeting — betw...

urinary incontinence is a major health problem affecting many older women and has multiple impacts on all aspects of their lives. Research into nursing care has developed a strong interest in health education in the treatment of urinary incontinence, especially through the use of self-care. The obje...

The relationship between stress and health have been the subject of a great deal of research, particularly with students in health training. Indeed, expectations of the university can generate stress and have harmful consequences on the physical and mental health of students (e.g., sleep problems, d...

Memorandum of Understanding between Laval University and Quebec University in outimi. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of a programme of extracurricular education for healthy diets and active lifestyles involving the participation of parents on the physical condition of children of pri...

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International audience This article studies temporalities at work as three managers expose them during individual coaching sessions – a device founded on psychological techniques, which has been “prescribed” to them by their firm. Three figures taken by time at work appear: a time reduced to present...

‘titrebSummary’/titreb. based on the French Health Protection Sociale survey carried out in 2006, this study analyses health inequalities linked to migration. The results suggest disparities in health status between the immigrant population and the French population, which are particularly pronounce...

, which emerged in France in the 18th century, the concept of naturism refers to a neo-hippocratic care doctrine. A particular medical approach quickly takes the form of a therapy and hygiene based on the use of nature elements and compliance with its laws. At the beginning of the 20th century, it g...

This book is written in a polemic style as a follow-up to Ivan Illitch’s criticism of the profession in his Medical Nemésis (1975). The objective? Denounce the perversion (or perversity) of the ideals of medicine. Petr Skrabanek, who has recently died, refuses, like his predecessor, that doctors exe...

This research is based on the finding that ergonomists experience professional difficulties impacting both on them and on their interventions. It is with this in mind that it aims to contribute to the enrichment of the initial training of the ergonomics of Quebec. To that end, the activity carried o...

This thesis sought to compare sleep, diurnal and quality of life disruptions associated with comorbide insomnia with psychiatric or medical disorder with insomnia alone. First, a literature review on disturbance of sleep and diurnal functioning characterising comorbide insomnia, compared to insomnia...

The thesis, conducted as part of the E-care project, proposes a methodological process to facilitate the analysis and design of medical remote monitoring systems for early detection of signs of any complications. The proposed methodology is based on a multi-agent system using several types of ontolo...

Parodontal diseases, natural diseases induced by dental plate accumulation on the teeth, affect all dogs to varying degrees during their lifetime. Severity depends on different factors of general and local risks. The main ones are, on the one hand, the size of the individual and, on the other hand,...

International audience The yardstick competition between European health care system is not calling for the french system. Disability-free life expectancy at 65 is, for example, at a better level in few North European countries for a same level of public health expenditures than the french system. A...

Several approaches have been proposed over time to improve adherence rates to nurses’ hand hygiene in a context of prevention of healthcare-associated infections. However, these rates are and remain low in Quebec (Lacoursière, 2018) as elsewhere (Stella et al., 2019). Since the mid-1980s, a behaviou...

A paediatrician presents two clinical vignettes of diabetic adolescents; one of them manages its treatments and hygiene without any apparent difficulty, while the second has significant difficulties in integrating the constraints and obligations caused by the disease. On the basis of these two clini...

International audience The yardstick competition between European health care system is not calling for the french system. Disability-free life expectancy at 65 is, for example, at a better level in few North European countries for a same level of public health expenditures than the french system. A...

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A philosopher and a general practitioner accompany us on the paths of applied ethics. How to act just if there is no good solution? How to behave when we have to do and not to do something, something to the contrary, and the unease? Several ethical issues of daily care are dealt with here in the spe...

In this dissertation, we are mainly interested in the interactions between poverty and one of its greatest dimensions1, namely health. More specifically, we will focus on their inequalities: does poverty inequality have more effect on poverty than health level? Does health inequality matter to pover...

Armand Imbert (1850-1922) were appointed, after his aggregation, a professor of medical physics at the Montpellier Medical Faculty, which, at the Saint-Éloi Hospital in Montpellier, assessed him to be in contact mainly with accidents at work on a daily basis. Before 1898, accidents at work were cons...

“Primary prevention” aims at eliminating or controlling risk factors in the working environment by acting on working organisation and conditions. “Secondary prevention” should help employees to better manage constraints (learning to deal with conflicts, relaxation, hygiene of life, etc.), and “terti...

The aim of this text is to develop a confrontational model that helps to understand the socio-cultural roots of the representations of digital technologies. It is based on the observation of continuities of phenomena in several comparative research on the use of digital media in Franco-German contex...

The aim of this text is to develop a confrontational model that helps to understand the socio-cultural roots of the representations of digital technologies. It is based on the observation of continuities of phenomena in several comparative research on the use of digital media in Franco-German contex...