In literature on neighbourhood effects and resources accessibility, the number of neighbourhood resources to which residents may have access are often estimated from spatial units whose constant size fails to account for unique ways residents experience their neighbourhoods. To investigate this...

Ce rapport présente les résultats de l'étude des inégalités sociales et territoriales en matière de pratiques alimentaires "ALImentation dans la cohorte SIRS francilienne : ALISIRS". Les deux premiers chapItres présentent les outils et méthodes développés et utilisés dans l'étude....

This paper explores the lived experiences and the identity processes attached to attendance at free clinics. It draws on a qualitative study of 94 patients and 37 professionals who were interviewed at four free clinics in France. Since these facilities are for the poor and for people without...

Among Western countries, France has the highest incidence of imported malaria cases, mostly from travellers visiting Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Despite related high costs of imported malaria assumed by the public French national health insurance system (FHS), the latter does not reimburse...

Informal social support contributes in different ways to individuals’ social integration and to poverty reduction. This article makes a comparison between Antananarivo and Paris. The data is taken from a survey carried out as part of a multidisciplinary international research programme,...