[Hobart: exciting and frustrating all at once. Interview by F.J. Tomiche]

In this interview Dr Cohen Solal gives his impressions on the Hobart Conference which he found altogether extremely interesting and slightly baffling. Interesting because of some remarkable presentations; baffling because too many different subjects were discussed at the same time. Dr. Cohen Solal is in favour of a real dialogue on health education with representatives of the health services in the Third World. During the meeting of the European Office of the IUHE in Edinburgh in 1982, he proposed that a Working Group be formed to make recommendations on how best to cooperate with health educators in developing countries. This group will soon be at work. Dr Cohen Solal believes in the broadest possible approach of health education at school as well as in the community. He also stresses the importance of evaluation in health education programmes. To this effect, in France, statistics are being improved and epidemiological studies being carried out. Dr Cohen Solal agrees that health educators are often prone to use a jargon which only they themselves understand. He thinks that the message must be put across in clear, simple words.