S’il existe une importante littérature analysant les écarts de salaire entre hommes et femmes, les inégalités de patrimoine restent un sujet relativement peu exploré. Or, la richesse est un indicateur important de bien-être économique, que l’on s’intéresse aux inégalités dans la...

Ce document discute les avantages et limites des analyses comparatives des politiques familiales. Nous commençons par présenter des faits stylisés clés concernant la fécondité, l'emploi des femmes et les différences concernant les politiques familiales qui tous appellent à une meilleure...

The VIRAGE (Violence and Gender Relations) survey aims to develop a new approach to gender-based violence by including men in its sample. It is a quantitative survey involving 35,000 respondents (women and men) aged 20-69 that uses an innovative multimode data collection method (phone and...

The ANRS-EN12-VESPA 2003 survey interviewed a national, representative sample of the HIV-positive population attending hospital outpatient services. Conducting the survey in a hospital made it easier to identify and contact HIV-positive patients, but involved various biases : the role of the...

Résumé In industrialised countries the treatment of tuberculosis was one of the first public health services to appear at the beginning of the 20th century. This initiative represented a departure from the usual measures set up by public health specialists for improving living and...

Résumé Ce texte présente la synthèse de travaux de recherches menées en France et en Algérie par A. Thebaud et F. Lert sur la tuberculose et l'application du traitement anti-tuberculeux. La tuberculose constitue un des meilleurs indicateurs sanitaires de l'inégalité sociale. Cette...

The French system for drug substitution, or maintenance treatment, established in 1996, differs from the often strict conditions attached to methadone clinics in other countries. Because of the predominant role of general practitioners and the flexible prescription rules for Subutex® in...

Research shows that lifetime socioeconomic circumstances are associated with adult health. Yet most studies to date have focused on mortality and additional data on morbidity outcomes are needed. Additionally, most research in this area has been conducted in Northern European countries or in the...