Editorial — The Weekly N°31-2026
This week, a common underlying theme runs through our resources: health is being redistributed. It is leaving the medical office to reach schools, businesses, pharmacists, and social connections themselves, now prescribed and funded. It is also being reshaped in local governance, where the prefect and the new departmental delegations of the ARS redefine who decides and who funds your projects. Finally, it is shifting to the digital realm, where parents and educators struggle to keep up with practices — AI, sports betting — already established among the youngest. Everywhere, the same question persists: that of inequalities, non-access, and rights that remain unaddressed for the most vulnerable. Eleven texts to objectify what the field senses, and to transform a feeling into an arguable point.
NEWS FROM HEALTH PRACTICES
This week Health Practices reached 1,000,000 VISITORS (from 01/01/2026 to 03/08/202). In 2025, this threshold was only reached on December 12, after 345 days. In 2026, it was reached after 214 days, which is 131 days ahead and nearly 38% growth!
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HEALTH PROMOTION
Trends of the 2026 Initiatives — Collective intelligence and foresight of global well-being leaders (GWI)
International overview of shifts in prevention: prescribed and funded social link, isolation treated as a modifiable risk, lifestyle medicine, supportive environments. Impact figures and reproducible models mobilisable for advocacy, to be read with a critical eye on the industry discourse. https://www.pratiquesensante.com/en/blog/practices-15/initiative-trends-2026-collective-intelligence-and-foresight-from-global-wellness-leaders-6086
SOCIETAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
National plan 2026-2029 — For equality, against hate and anti-LGBTI+ discrimination (DILCRAH)
Five axes and 74 measures with enforceable deadlines and named provisions (centres, helplines, counters). A directory of entry points to guide, protect and support throughout the life course. - https://www.pratiquesensante.com/en/blog/practices-15/plan-national-2026-2029-pour-l-egalite-contre-la-haine-et-les-discriminations-anti-lgbti-6081
Creation, dissemination and acquisition of knowledge: how AI is transforming our education and culture (National Assembly)
Documents a massive and early use of AI by young people, often out of the sight of adults. Distinguishes uses that include (accessibility, remediation) from those that impoverish, with pages directly transposable to the medico-social. - https://www.pratiquesensante.com/en/blog/practices-15/creation-dissemination-and-acquisition-of-knowledge-how-artificial-intelligence-is-transforming-our-education-and-our-culture-6087
PUBLIC POLICIES
Law aimed at equipping France with a national strategy to combat cardio-neuro-vascular diseases (JORF)
Secures blood pressure measurement by physiotherapists, pharmacists and nurses and legitimises partnerships with schools and employers. Establishes a screening appointment proposed around 6 years old and includes the reduction of inequalities as an enforceable objective. - https://www.pratiquesensante.com/en/blog/practices-15/loi-visant-a-doter-la-france-d-une-strategie-nationale-de-lutte-contre-les-maladies-cardio-neuro-vasculaires-6080
An insight into "emerging or changing issues" for health and social policies (IGAS)
Mapping the underlying tensions in the health and social field: non-access, financialisation, AI in organisations, the dictatorship of indicators. A way to put one's daily life into perspective and nourish the dialogue with institutions and funders.- https://www.pratiquesensante.com/en/blog/practices-15/un-eclairage-des-sujets-emergents-ou-en-mutation-pour-les-politiques-sanitaires-et-sociales-6088
Decree No. 2026-649 of 22 July 2026 concerning the intervention of the prefect in the payment of the FIR
The prefect obtains a right of oversight, with possible suspensive re-examination, over significant funding granted locally. From 2027, a portion of the fund will be allocated by department: an additional actor in the decision-making circuit for grants. - https://www.pratiquesensante.com/en/blog/practices-15/decret-n-2026-649-du-22-juillet-2026-relatif-a-l-intervention-du-prefet-dans-le-versement-du-fonds-d-intervention-regional-des-agences-regionales-de-sante-6091
Decree No. 2026-722 of 1 August 2026 concerning the departmental delegations of the ARS
Each department has a dedicated ARS director for expanded missions and a healthcare access committee co-chaired with elected officials. New interlocutors and bodies to carry a prevention or local project. https://www.pratiquesensante.com/en/blog/practices-15/decret-n-2026-722-du-1er-aout-2026-relatif-aux-delegations-departementales-des-agences-regionales-de-sante-6092
POPULATION HEALTH
Access to rights and discrimination: what specificities for people in situations of precariousness? (Defender of Rights)
Figures on the cumulative discrimination, renunciation and non-use: 53% renounce care deemed necessary, 40% face a refusal to file a complaint. Documented disparities, usable as is in a territorial diagnosis or advocacy action. - https://www.pratiquesensante.com/en/blog/practices-15/acces-aux-droits-et-discriminations-quelles-specificites-pour-les-personnes-en-situation-de-precarite-6093
THEMATIC APPROACHES
Sports betting among young people: motivations and trajectories (OFDT)
Qualitative reading of entry into gaming among 15-25 year olds, from circumventing the ban to exit, in the words of young people. Concrete markers to situate pivotal phases and open dialogue without judgment. - https://www.pratiquesensante.com/en/blog/practices-15/paris-sportifs-chez-les-jeunes-motivations-et-trajectoires-6082
Parents facing their adolescents' digital activity (CREDOC)
Survey of 500 parents: very well-equipped and confident in their skills, but overwhelmed as soon as secondary school and struggling to enforce their rules. Concrete guidelines for building a digital parenting workshop or framing family mediation. - https://www.pratiquesensante.com/en/blog/practices-15/parents-facing-their-teenagers-digital-activity-6089
ACCESS AND QUALITY OF CARE
Developing mental health services through the primary care approach (WHO Europe / The Lancet Primary Care)
Four strategies to embed mental health care at the first point of contact, with examples from various countries. Establishes a useful safety rule: only expand detection to the level of follow-up capacity. - https://www.pratiquesensante.com/blog/pratiques-15/developper-les-services-de-sante-mentale-par-l-approche-des-soins-primaires-strategies-de-mise-en-%C5%93uvre-a-travers-la-region-europeenne-de-l-oms-6085
Daniel Oberlé - Health Practices
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