A governmental program to encourage medical students to deliver primary prevention: experiment and evaluation in a French faculty of medicine.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A public health student service was set up by the French government in 2018 with the aim of increasing awareness of primary health promotion among the 47,000 students of medicine and other health professions. It is an annual program involving community-based actions on nutrition, physical activity, addiction or sexuality. Our objective was to evaluate its implementation at local level and the different experiences of the stakeholders.

Methods

A quasi-experimental study using process evaluation was performed in a Faculty of Medicine in Paris. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected from medical students who carried out preventive health actions, in the institutions in which the actions took place and from a subsample of beneficiaries.

Results

One hu

SUBMITTER: Le Roux E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7805043 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature