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The principal objective of these surveys is to monitor the changes in the prevalence of pathologies likely to disturb children's schooling and to damage their future health. They also educate public powers and local professionals on the public health actions to be carried out.

For children of each grade, the common objectives are to:
- provide data on height and weight disorders;
- specify the prevalence of chronic diseases or deficiencies likely to disturb children in their daily lives and throughout the proper progression of their schooling (asthma, vision or hearing disorders, food allergies, etc.) and to indicate the methods for treating them;
- assess their oral and dental health;
- estimate the rate of immunisation coverage;
- gain better knowledge of everyday accidents for these age groups;
- better evaluate learning disorders and their treatment (last year of nursery school);
- provide information about children's social environment and their life habits (dietary habits, time spent looking at screens, physical activities) making it possible to correlate the living environment with the surveyed disorders.

To document gambling and game-of-chance practices on the internet.

Purpose of the AUPALESENS programme was to test the efficacy of "sensory" strategies for preventing and fighting malnutrition among seniors. Specifically, this programme allows for:
• the measurement of the impact of sensory, psychological and sociological factors on the dietary behaviour and nutritional status of seniors. This work is based on a multidisciplinary survey conducted in 559 French people over 65 years of age who present different degrees of dependence (independent individuals living at home, individuals receiving aid at home, individuals living in an institution);
• identification of tactics for improving the appetence and pleasure associated with meals for dependent seniors. For this work, we have developed and tested tools and strategies for improving 1. the sensory quality of foods offered to seniors (content of the dish) and 2. the context of the meal (reappropriation of the meal);
• evaluation of the impact of sensory tactics on dietary intake over the course of a meal.

The purpose of the survey is to identify and understand specific life habits and health behaviours of students, as well as to better target preventive needs.