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The contradictory injunctions of the intersectoral approach in public health policy. The case of France's national nutrition health program Volume 39, issue 3, Septembre 2021

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* Sociologue, Atelier SHERPAS (URePSSS, EA 7369), Université de Lille
** Sociologue, Centre Émile Durkheim (UMR CNRS 5116), Université de Bordeaux
*** Sociologue, Laboratoire CreSco (EA 7419), LaSSP (EA, 4175) et Ifériss, Université de Toulouse (FED 41-42)

Established in 2001, France's national nutrition health program (Programme national nutrition santé) is a public health policy aimed at educating people about and promoting health through food choices and physical activity. With a strong inter-ministerial dimension, its implementation involves the input of several administrations and decentralized services. This article analyzes three different regions in order to question the transversality of health policies and the coordination capacity of different sectors. We show that the coordination tools proposed and developed at the regional level fail to slow down the effects of intersectoral subdivisions, as well as encountering real difficulties in terms of integrating multiple and rival prevention mechanisms.