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The objective of this study is to evaluate the behavior of French teenagers (from 11 to 17 years old) regarding tanning : sunless tanning products, sunlamps, artificial tanning beds.

Build a database for describing joint mother-child hospital admissions in France, Belgium and Luxembourg that may be used to test a number of clinical hypotheses, particularly assumptions about factors of maternal and paternal mental health improvement and risk factors for the child dévelopment and safety.

To evaluate the prevalence of excess weight and obesity in French people aged 18 years and over.

The objectives of this survey are to follow the changes in certain behaviors, but also to
build promotion strategies for health and to influence health policies in favor of young people. The international and multidisciplinary dimension of the survey is an undisputed wealth of information for understanding the behaviors and lifestyles of young Frenchmen.
The HBSC survey follows a research protocol that is common to all of the countries, in order to standardize the sampling and data collection methods as much as possible.