Public health interventions that are synergistic with trends in social norms are likely to be more effective than those that run counter to them. In France, sexual health and HIV prevention policies aimed at harm limitation appear to have chimed with secular trends. The evidence of greater diversification of sexual practices offers potential to increase the range of safer sex messages used in public health interventions.
Surveys of hard to reach populations (rare, no known sampling frames) have been, for some years, the object of methodological reflection. Various methods aiming at the production of an 'extrapolable' sample of these populations have been proposed: time-space sampling (TSS) or time-location sampling (TLS), respondent driven sampling (RDS), or the 'capturerecapture' method. After defining what a hard-to reach-population is, this article provides an outline of these various approaches before going on to briefly consider the papers contained in this special issue.
Les enquêtes auprès des populations difficiles à joindre (rares, dépourvues de base de sondage) font, depuis quelques années, l“objet de réflexions. Différentes méthodes d”investigations permettant d“obtenir un échantillon extrapolable de ces populations ont été proposes: l”échantillonnage de lieux-moments (TSS ou TLS en anglais), l“échantillonnage dirigé par les répondants (RDS en anglais), ou la méthode de « capture-recapture ». Après avoir défini ce qu”est une population difficile à joindre, cette introduction dresse un panorama de ces méthodes d'enquêtes, puis présente les différentes contributions réunies dans ce numéro spécial.
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