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For more than 20 years, the Ministry of Solidarity and Health and the Ministry of Culture have pursued a joint policy of access to culture for all audiences in hospitals. In 2010, the Ministry of Health and Sports and the Ministry of Culture and Communication signed a new "Culture and Health" agreement. After a period of experimentation in four regions, the aim of the "Culture and Health" scheme is to take into account the medico-social sector. The aim is to promote all actions oriented towards of the "Culture and Health" theme, which helps to bring culture "close" to the fellow citizens: everywhere, in all territories, and also to develop the sharing of experiences between the players. The target audience includes the entire health community: hospitalized people, elderly people, families, health and medical-social professionals.
In the regions, the interministerial partnership is implemented through agreements signed between the Regional Directorates of Cultural Affairs (DRAC) and the Regional Health Agencies (ARS). Many hospitals have included cultural policies of excellence in their contracts of objectives and resources.
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Themes: Culture and...
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This mechanism facilitates the development of more than 600 projects per year, concerning all types of cultural facilities, all artistic disciplines, all types of hospitals and all audiences (children, adults, seniors).
Each region has its own decentralization in managing the project. An example it is the report Culture and Health 2017-2021 from Bretagne. Since 2017, the funding allocated for the projects is represented by a stable budget of 146 000€ including 65000€ paid by the ARS and 81000€ paid by the DRAC. For the applications received, between 2017 and 2021, they noted an average number of nearly 64 applications per year, with a peak of 84 applications in 2019 and a low in 2021 with only 36 applications, but this number of 36 applications is explained by the health crisis and the non-renewal of actions. There are nearly 180 projects funded in 5 years, an average of about 36 projects received per year. This figure varies between 42 (2019) and 29 (2021).