title: [Toulouse, an "urban figure of public health". Dealing with public local struggles against health social differences].
abstract: When drawing up the portrait of "urban figures of public health", in 1998, Didier Fassin considered Toulouse to be one of the worthy "local experiments". Fifteen years after his precursory work, the recently developed local public policy against health social differences gives an opportunity to question ourselves about the effectiveness of such a quality then associated to the city. A cognitive analysis of the elaboration of the Toulousian health public policy meaning enables to notice that the process of health legitimization on a local scale takes the following forms. On the one hand, renaming health as a legitimate object of public policies sets it up as a common wealth. On the other hand, local public policy puts the emphasis on health education and tries to increase the standing of social appraisal coming from associative experiments and abilities of the inhabitants themselves. Finally, it calls for citizens' mobilization and solidarity in order to promote a "health democracy" able to struggle efficiently against health social differences.
authors.affiliation: Institut fédératif d'études et de recherches interdisciplinaires santé et société (Iferiss), faculté de médecine, 37 allées Jules-Guesde, Toulouse cedex 9, France. jean-charles.basson@univ-tlse3.fr
authors.forename: J-C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Basson
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Haschar-Noé
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Honta
mesh_terms: D002947:Cities / Q000453:epidemiology; D003709:Democracy; D005602:France / Q000453:epidemiology; D006266:Health Education / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000458:organization & administration; D054624:Health Status Disparities; D006801:Humans; D009014:Morals; D011057:Politics; D011634:Public Health / Q000941:ethics / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011640:Public Policy; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014504:Urban Health / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D014505:Urban Population / Q000706:statistics & numerical data