[The High Committee of public health: an experience of 10 years].
According to The Patients' Rights law of 4 March 2002, a High Council on Health is presently to supersede the High Committee on Public Health created in december 1991. For the last ten years, the HCPH has fulfilled its purpose of fostering public health policy, through two different kinds of reports. The periodic "Health in France" reports (1994, 1998, 2002) have provided an overview of the state of health in France, highlighting its strengths and weaknesses, and raising questions about the organisation of the health system. At the particular request of the Minister for Health, the HCPH has also drawn up reports on specific topics whose proposals have provided guidance for a number of regulations on medical care organisation or prevention. The HCPH reports and three-monthly review "Current public health issues and documents" have contributed to the dissemination of public health culture and know-how, which remain underdeveloped in France.
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Haut Comité de la santé publique, Ministère de la Santé, de la Famille et des Personnes handicapées, 8 avenue de Ségur, 75350 Paris.
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D026683:Advisory Committees / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D011634:Public Health / Q000706:statistics & numerical data