Jeunesse et politique de la ville: quels jeunes pour quelles politiques?

« La jeunesse n’est plus ce qu’elle était », comme le rappelle Dominique Charvin; hier privilège de quelques-uns, elle est devenue avec le XXe siècle « le sort commun de tous les jeunes ». Selon les sociétés, les temps et les lieux, la jeunesse peut être ou ne pas être, peut s’ancrer ou non dans une réalité sociale. La jeunesse est un passage, passage de l’enfance à l’âge adulte qui peut se résumer à un rite d’initiation et être consommé quasiment dans l’instant. Au contraire, il peut trouver..

Regards croisés sur la jeunesse

Issu d’une confrontation pluridisciplinaire sur la jeunesse, ce numéro présente un état des lieux des recherches actuelles sur l’étude des jeunesses, dans les domaines de l’anthropologie, l’ethnologie, l’histoire contemporaine, la sociologie, les sciences juridiques. Rites de passage, engagements, classes d’âge, politiques de la ville, mai 68, danses, en France comme en Afrique, sont parmi les thèmes abordés dans ce numéro, qui initie un travail collectif de recherche de la MSH de Clermont-Ferrand sur l’engagement et le souci de soi des jeunes d’hier et d’aujourd’hui

Women and health professionals’ perspectives on a conditional cash transfer programme to improve pregnancy follow-up: a qualitative analysis of the NAITRE randomised controlled study

Objectives Women of low socioeconomic status have been described as having suboptimal prenatal care, which in turn has been associated with poor pregnancy outcomes. Many types of conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes have been developed, including programmes to improve prenatal care or smoking cessation during pregnancy, and their effects demonstrated. However, ethical critiques have included paternalism and lack of informed choice. Our objective was to determine if women and healthcare professionals (HPs) shared these concerns.Design Prospective qualitative research.Setting We included economically disadvantaged women, as defined by health insurance data, who participated in the French NAITRE randomised trial assessing a CCT programme during prenatal follow-up to improve pregnancy outcomes. The HP worked in some maternities participating in this trial.Participants 26 women, 14 who received CCT and 12 who did not, mostly unemployed (20/26), and - 7 HPs.Interventions We conducted a multicentre cross-sectional qualitative study among women and HPs who participated in the NAITRE Study to assess their views on CCT. The women were interviewed after childbirth.Results Women did not perceive CCT negatively. They did not mention feeling stigmatised. They described CCT as a significant source of aid for women with limited financial resources. HP described the CCT in less positive terms, for example, expressing concern about discussing cash transfer at their first medical consultation with women. Though they emphasised ethical concerns about the basis of the trial, they recognised the importance of evaluating CCT.Conclusions In France, a high-income country where prenatal follow-up is free, HPs were concerned that the CCT programme would change their relationship with patients and wondered if it was the best use of funding. However, women who received a cash incentive said they did not feel stigmatised and indicated that these payments helped them prepare for their baby’s birth.Trial registration number NCT0240285