[Elementary school health and the national education physician-teacher partnership: apropos of 2 surveys conducted by national education physicians in training].

: This article presents the methods and results of two surveys aiming to contribute to the development of partnerships between doctors and teachers in primary school. The first study, carried out with a sample of elementary school teachers, shows the interest they have in health promotion at school, their desire to see national education doctors become involved in health education, and their misunderstanding of the role of national education doctors and nurses, especially in training and participation in school projects. The second study, carried out among a sample of national education doctors, shows their felt sense of "friction" between the individual medical approach within which they were trained and for which they are known and solicited, and the public health approach that they would like to develop. To ameliorate the partnership, the inspector of national education, as the responsible party for educational policies within his district, is the necessary "link" between doctors, school directors and teachers.