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Annual reports
Activity report 2023-24 of the Ramsay Sante Foundation
Internationalization, new directors, new projects supported. The year 2033/24 saw the opening of Ramsay Sante Foundation to Scandinavian countries.
It was also a year of continuity, with the 7th Rencontres Prévention Santé, the 5th promotion of our start-up and association incubator, and the expansion of our prevention FAQ site.
Prevention is an essential response to the fragility of our healthcare system. Our Foundation takes action every day. Find out how.
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2022-23 Activity Report Ramsay Sante Foundation
Back in 2017, Ramsay Sante Foundation embarked on a program to promote preventive healthcare. Its ambition? To make all the players involved more supportive and responsible, so that every French person, better informed, adopts the right behaviors for their health.
Our 2022-2023 report summarizes our actions and sheds light on the past five years.
Over the past five years, the Foundation has acted on several levels: national initiatives, support for innovation and support for associations in the field.
This report highlights the testimony of associative leaders who work with the most vulnerable populations on a daily basis to promote preventive healthcare.
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White papers
Young people and health, the fight against infoxes
Informed mainly via social networks, young people seem particularly vulnerable to false information, calling into question scientifically established facts. La Ramsay Sante Foundation, which has been involved in health prevention for young people for several years, wanted to find out where young people get their health information, assess their propensity to check sources, and determine their level of education in critical thinking.
Young people and sexual health: what's the solution?
Faced with the surge in STIs, the emergence of the issue of consent, and the access of the very young to porn on social networks, the sexual health of young people has become a health issue as well as an educational one.
Ramsay Sante Foundation wanted to understand where young people go to find information about their sexual health. What are their main information channels? How do social networks influence new sexual behaviors?
Young people and screens, for better or for worse
Young people are quite clear about the relationship they have with their cell phone: at once a formidable tool for social bonding and the object of a toxic, addictive relationship.
Three chapters to decipher the worst and the best:
- Our lives on screens: what role does digital technology play in young people's daily lives?
- Paving the way for responsible digital practices
- Striking a balance between the real and virtual worlds
School bullying: preventing the downward spiral
3 chapters to understand and take action:
- Harassment and cyberbullying in schools: towards greater awareness
- How to deal with violence in schools
- Organizing tomorrow's prevention today
Youth suicide: the other emergency
3 chapters for understanding, presenting initiatives and taking action:
- Young people and suicide: a state of emergency
- What do young people have to say about causes, prevention and support systems?
- New perspectives: building tomorrow's prevention
Does being young seriously damage your health?
Young people and health prevention
3 chapters to understand and take action:
- A health and social challenge
- Generate ideas collectively
- Contribute and act
Citizen consultations
The Foundation joins forces with the citizens' platform Make.org to help build consensus on issues of general interest.
How can we encourage young people to take better care of their health?
Young people feel little concern for prevention, and yet! They face growing health challenges. What do they have to say? What do they expect from preventive healthcare?
How can we protect young people from bullying at school?
The aim of this consultation is to identify concrete solutions and help prevent bullying at school.
STUDY REPORT: SUICIDE PREVENTION
Suicide prevention: what do young people know about it?
In the midst of a health crisis, and at a time when the mental health of young people continues to give cause for concern, Ramsay Sante Foundation has launched a survey with the Jam media to find out how much young people know about suicide prevention.
Stress Observatory
Ramsay Sante corporate Foundation has set up its Stress Observatory, the first action of which was the publication of a stress map: are the illnesses associated with stress by the French a fact?
This first Stress Observatory study consists of 2 parts:
- a medical stress map created with Kap Codea start-up specializing in health signal research on social networks, comparing :
- pathologies associated with stress by the French via a scan of publications on social networks between 2007 and 2016,
- the state of medical research publications on stress over the last 10 years,
- and the results of an Inserm study on proven stress-related pathologies.
- a survey conducted in October 2017 with OpinionWay aimed at defining French people's relationship with stress
Are the pathologies that the French associate with stress true?
As part of the Stress Observatory, Ramsay Sante corporate Foundation, with Kap Code, analyzed the pathologies that the French associate with stress, based on 8,958 conversations observed on social networks between 2007 and 2016. It then compared this perception with the results of an Inserm study highlighting proven stress-related pathologies*:
- The consequences of stress on mental health are the most represented, with a 56% share of the vote. These concern sleep quality, burn-out, emotional suffering, addictions, etc. Medically proven pathologies, as shown by the Inserm study.
- Then come more general disorderssuch as asthenia or tinnitus... with 15% of citations. However, there is no proven link between stress and these pathologies, according to Inserm.
- Pathologies linked to diabetes and overweight account for 13% of mentions. These pathologies are well established.
- Then, with a share of less than 10%, we find musculoskeletal disorders (tremors, contractures...) at 7%, digestive pathologies (5%) such as nausea, ulcers and abdominal pain, respiratory disorders, dermatological pathologies (psoriasis, eczema, acne), gynecological and andrological diseases (infertility, hot flushes, hair loss) and cardiovascular pathologies (tachycardia). With regard to these pathologies, if musculoskeletal disorders, digestive diseases, cardiac affections and dermatological pathologies are well establishedthis is not the case for respiratory or gynaecological disorders.
Stress: where does scientific research stand?
Ramsay Sante corporate Foundation, in conjunction with Kap Code, has also analyzed scientific publications on stress over the last 10 years. It revealed that 24% of research on stress analyzed its impact on mental health (insomnia, emotional suffering...), 20% on metabolic diseases (diabetes, overweight...) and 14% on cardiovascular disease..
Furthermore, while the corpus analyzed on social networks makes no mention of cancer as a consequence of stress, nor has Inserm demonstrated a causal link, it should be noted that over the last 10 years, 22% of scientific articles relating to stress have focused on its involvement in various forms of cancer.
Opinion survey conducted in October 2017
Nearly 9 out of 10 French people are stressed, and nearly 4 out of 10 have seen their stress increase over the past 3 years. 60% of women and 57% of young people are concerned.
- In the short term, the French believe that stress has an impact on their sleep (54%), their behavior (40%) and their family life (26%), and 8 out of 10 are convinced of the impact of stress on their long-term health.
- Among the diseases proven to be caused by stress: psychological pathologies, overweight and diabetes, musculoskeletal disorders, as well as digestive, cardiovascular and dermatological disorders.
- Scientific research on the subject doubled between 2007 and 2017. It focuses on the impact of stress on psychological disorders (24%), cancers (22%) and weight and diabetes (20%).
Stress, the evil of the century: it affects 89% of French people, and has been on the rise for 38% of them over the past 3 years
50% of French people consider themselves to be fairly or very stressedThis is particularly true of women (68% vs. 38% of men), 25-34 year-olds (57%) and people living in north-eastern France (57%). While stress has increased over the past 3 years for 38% of French people, this is even more the case for those who are already highly stressed, 78% of whom have seen their stress increase over the past 3 years. The main causes of stress are professional life (36%), financial problems (35%), personal life (33%) and health problems/chronic illnesses (31%). It should be noted that professional life is the primary cause of stress for men (40%) and the under-35s (47%), personal life (family life, children, etc.) for women (39%), and health problems for the over-35s (36%).
In terms of consequences, the French are well aware of the impact of stress on their lives:
- In the short term, they see it as having a major impact on the quality of their sleep (54%), and on their behavior, causing nervousness or irritability (40%).
- In the long term, 83% of French people believe that stress has an impact on their health.This is even truer of the highly stressed French, 95% of whom think so. In detail, 70% believe that stress causes long-term sleep problems, 57% psychological problems and 51% heart problems.
To combat stress, sport (55%) and relaxation/yoga/meditation (45%) are considered the best allies.
In addition to sport, 58% of the most stressed French prefer medical solutions, such as consulting a health professional (31%), using alternative medicine (19%) or taking medication (18%).
But in practice, almost 1/3 of French people still do nothing to combat stress..
- Survey conducted online, from October 4 to 6, 2017, using the CAWI method, by OpinionWay for Ramsay Sante corporate Foundation among a sample of 1,017 people representative of the French population aged 18 and over.
- Kap Code study for Ramsay Sante corporate Foundation of the representation of stress on social networks between 2007 and 2016.
- Kap Code analysis for Ramsay Sante corporate Foundation of scientific publications reporting on the notion of psychological stress between 2007 and 2017.
- Inserm study on the mechanisms linking stress and pathologies, 2010.