If the “demand” and exploding health costs, education “consumers” in this field was far behind, covered only by the press and by some websites. It is precisely this niche intends to occupy the Institut Pasteur-Lille Pasteur associated with the support of a group of investors (1), he launched a subsidiary that specializes in training and information on media Health: Pastor Mediavita, with an offer to tour both to businesses and the general public. Pastor Mediavita first proposes a set of vocational courses devoted to health and food security for the hotel industry, catering, food industry and supermarkets. For this, the firm carried out a series of eight modules, totaling approximately five hours of learning: personal hygiene and hand washing, cleaning and disinfection of tools, control of temperature.
The whole making extensive use of drawings showing situations of life, and includes exercises such as questionnaires, games, detection of “anomalies”. The assembly can be released as a CD-ROM, but also print, or on the company intranet, and used self-study. But it is also possible to add some tutorials (online or by “presence-”), tests, assessments, etc.. For now, this type of program has little competition. Just does one find on the market a few CD-ROM containing procedures to follow.
But there is no genuine product of self. As for the educational services sector firms, they generally take presentations on paper or PowerPoint. Training content can also be easily translated into different languages, which allows Pasteur Mediavita seeking groups in Europe and even worldwide. An agreement has also been signed with industrial cleaning, to October, on the European level. Part two of Pastor Mediavita offer: the company designs and manufactures products for major media companies and dedicated to health and risk prevention: Immunization Information, advice on best practices, prevention of chronic diseases and work (stress, alcoholism.
“Fifteen million French, for example, are suffering from a chronic illness such as diabetes or back pain, and seek to improve their quality of life. We want to meet this need by providing clear explanations about their disease and medical prescriptions, without us sub-To carry out his attack, Pastor Mediavita has developed a series of partnerships. She is working with Millennium, an SME specialized in e-learning and change management. It is also associated with OCP, the first French distributor, to distribute its products in pharmacies, as well as Hachette, which publishes small books to accompany the CD-ROM.