“Barely 14 million euros for access to health in working-class neighborhoods” | EUROtoday

HAS At the very finish of January, in revealing discretion, the federal government introduced the elimination of funding devoted to entry to well being in working-class neighborhoods. A saving on the finish of the candle: barely 14 million euros, which can nonetheless have direct and quick penalties for the inhabitants of round thirty of essentially the most deprived areas within the nation. A call which highlights a worrying actuality: the pure and easy renunciation of the battle towards social and territorial well being inequalities.

The well being disaster linked to Covid-19 had, nevertheless, acted as a brutal revelation. It had uncovered obvious inequalities within the face of sickness and demise. In Seine-Saint-Denis, essentially the most affected division, extra mortality reached 134%, 33% greater than in Paris, though it borders. In the summer time of 2021, on the initiative of the interministerial delegation for the prevention and battle towards poverty, a public response emerged: the Secpa experiment (participative coordinated train constructions). Twenty-six constructions then bought concerned, with a transparent ambition: to adapt the well being supply to the social, linguistic and cultural realities of fashionable areas to make entry to well being a actuality.

Four years later, this experiment has established itself as probably the most dynamic breeding grounds for reinvention of our well being system. In these constructions, we have now reworked our practices. We have discovered to work with well being mediators, to help sufferers in prevention or entry to rights. We have generalized the help of interpreters, in particular person and by phone – to the purpose of questioning how we might do it earlier than. We have developed instruments to enhance sufferers’ well being literacy: their means to seek out info, perceive it, analyze it and use it. With customers, we have now co-constructed mutual support workshops towards non-recourse to rights, tailored bodily exercise actions, well being clinics in migrant staff’ houses. So many concrete initiatives, anchored in the true wants of the populations, that are the power of this so-called mannequin of “community health”.

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