A new health survey will be launched among the French population from Monday to better understand the relationship between health, the environment and food, health authorities have indicated.
This large survey aims to determine the health status of the population in France by documenting it “his eating habits, his physical activity as well as his exposure to various chemical substances present in the environment”indicates Public Health France (SPF) and the National Agency for Food, Environmental and Occupational Health Safety (ANSES).
The pilot phase, carried out on a first sample of 200 adults and 200 children over two years of age, will take place until December in the Ile-de-France and Nouvelle-Aquitaine regions to prepare for the implementation of the national study in spring 2025.
These people, drawn at random, will first have to fill in a questionnaire about their lifestyle habits in three weeks and then do health examinations in a medical biology laboratory.
“Some of the participants will have to wear an accelerometer over a period of seven days to measure their physical activity”details on the press release.
The survey, called Albane, will be repeated every two years to “provide a global and continuous vision of the health of the population” In France.
The generalization over the whole area of ​​this survey in May 2025 will include “3,000 people, including 2,000 adults and 1,000 children,” said Anses, interviewed by AFP, stressing that municipalities and houses will be drawn at random.
This updated data will be “analysed to help public authorities direct their actions to better protect health at every age of life”concludes ANSES and Public Health France.
Until now, the two organizations have conducted studies separately, “without actual cross-referencing of data” and it wasn’t that often, explains ANSES.
We will have now “very current data”what “will allow SPF to implement health prevention policies and update health recommendations”the agency added.