The PRALIMAP-INES program (PRomotion of ALImentation and Physical Activity - Health Inequalities) aims to reduce the level of overweight and the prevalence of overweight and obesity in young people.
"This device aims to support adolescents in improving their behavior in terms of physical activity and eating habits and to strengthen their psychosocial skills," said ARS Guadeloupe in a press release.
With a four-year experimentation period, this program will concern all of the 4th year pupils of the public colleges of the Archipelago and the Northern Islands. This new experiment is based on structured screening for overweight and obesity directly in the school environment, as close as possible to the students and at a key age.
They will benefit from double support; in schools but also via the healthcare system ambulatory and hospital. So they will participate in collective therapeutic education sessions led by a mobile team and the course of each adolescent will be worked with stakeholders in the metabolic diseases sector during multidisciplinary consultation (RCP).
The PRALIMAP-INES program responds to a key challenge of the Regional Health Plan II of the ARS Guadeloupe, Saint-Martin, Saint-Barthélemy which is to fight against social inequalities. There is indeed an inverse relationship between income and the prevalence of obesity. In France, the latest data from the INCA study show that the average prevalence of obesity of 17% rises to 24% among people belonging to the lowest income category.
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