Studying the Case de Santé de Toulouse (France) as a Propaedeutic Step
Résumé
The aim of this text is to provide a summary of the principles and practices of research in progress. To change and thwart the relentless unfolding of social inequities in health, we argue that health promotion research should adopt a heuristic purview for knowledge to be objectivised, conceptualised, paradigmatically reflected upon, coproduced methodically, disseminated, and shared. This goal implies that research practices should be based on three scientific conditions and on three singular empirical fields. When associated, the scientific conditions consist of elaborating an interdisciplinary method based on partnership and collaboration; disclosing a specific object comprised of the sum of the experimental measures in health aimed at social change; thinking epistemologically to link research practices with research on established practices. The three singular empirical fields of health promotion are relative to issues of: participation; mediation; social innovations constitutive to our claims of efficiency.
