The beautiful days also rhyme with vigilance. To support vacationers and residents in the face of seasonal risks, ARS Occitanie deploys its #Bonébonsreflexes campaign, a traveling prevention system. At the end of July, the latter stopped in Ariège for two days of playful animations and awareness around major summer health issues. Like this August 5, in front of the Prehistory Park in Tarascon.
Overexposure to the sun, mosquito bites, drownings, excess sugar … summer can sometimes reserve unpleasant surprises. In order to better prevent them, the ARS has designed a tour that travels the 13 departments of Occitania with a rich program adapted to all audiences. The system, carried by ARS Occitanie, is implemented by the company First don’t hurtet Children For the screening component of cardiovascular diseases. Each department welcomes two to three stages, with stops in strategic places, such as water bodies or urban beaches.
Among the flagship entertainment: a game of cards around sugar to raise awareness of young and old on their daily consumption, a space on the dangers of the sun, practical information on swimming in complete safety, or even supports on tick or mosquito-tigers. An initiative welcomed by visitors, and led by an invested team, like Alice, who animates the stands with her colleague Sullivan: ” c‘is stored by theme. We expose it to people and then we see what they are interested in. And then if they do not know, we go very naturally to small cards on what we can find in summer. »»
A fun approach, accessible to all
One of the assets of the device lies in its interactive and fun approach: recognition games (sea urchins, jellyfish, vipers, etc.), or “charlie of errors” to identify bad practices on the beach (red flag, rocks …)
“The goal is that it is fun. We try to group everything: sea, lakes, mountains … and we adapt the themes. For example, snakes or viper, it will be more for the mountain ”explains Alice.
Even adults find their account there, in particular thanks to a cardiovascular screening space with individual interviews conducted by health professionals, as well as many leaflets on the health themes of the year: addictions, food … The stand dedicated to swimming insists on the prevention of drownings, particularly affecting 45-64 years, often neglected: ” You have to monitor children, but not only … because often, swimmers are overestimated. »»
Same vigilance on the sun and its misdeeds: ” We will raise awareness of carcinomas and melanomas, the importance of wearing sunglasses, and not to be exposed too long, with cream »underlines the host.
And on the mosquito side, the reminders are clear: ” The Mosquito-Tigre lives 150 meters around its home. The easiest way is to remove stagnant water to destroy larvae. »»
C. B.