The “My Health Tips” operation is a traveling Health Insurance scheme which aims to encourage young people aged 16 to 25 to adopt health-promoting behaviors. The event took place in Thiers this Tuesday March 31, in Puy-de-Dôme.
Tuesday March 31, the “My Health Tips†tour stopped in Thiers, in Puy-de-Dôme. Among the many workshops, one of them reproduces a view which becomes blurred when excessive consumption of certain products. In this fun game, high school students become aware of what happens in certain evenings, with excessive drinking. A high school student says: “We couldn’t see anything. It was all troubled†. A young girl adds: “We see that this interferes a lot with vision. I didn’t think it would have such negative repercussions†.
There is no shortage of preconceived ideas about mental health. Listening structures have been developed, such as 31 14, in order to counter thoughts of suicide or 30 18, for listening to victims of cyberharassment. Wilhelmina Michel, prevention officer at the CPAM of Puy-de-Dôme, explains: “We really need to promote the systems that exist because young people are not aware of them. They can have access to free psychologists. There may be eavesdropping. They don’t necessarily dare to go there because there is always the taboo of mental health, of psychological consultation. They tell themselves that you have to be crazy to go there. We are here to play down the subject†.
Through games, the message gets across. They allow these students to better understand the challenges of their own health: assuming their autonomy to find a doctor, opening their Ameli account or even accessing different medical care. Emilie Callet, deputy director of the CPAM (Primary Health Insurance Fund) of Puy-de-Dôme, recalls: “The idea is to raise awareness, to have preventive actions as early as possible to detect a problem or a mental health question. We want them to know what steps to take in terms of contraception and sexual health prevention. We want to bring to us an audience that would not naturally pass through the door of a primary fund. We chose this territory because the indicators for recourse to rights and care were a little behind the rest of the population.†.
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Article produced from the report by Jean-Yves Blanc and Selim Oumeddour / France 3 Auvergne
