Toxicovigilance, which draws on toxicological and epidemiological expertise, plays a key role in environmental health surveillance and monitoring. The activities of the Toxicovigilance...

Objectives - To assess the influence of gender on psychoactive substance use among adults in France, according to educational level, employment status, occupation, and social class....

The objective of this study is to analyze the relationship between the incidence of cancer in adults and exposure to air emissions from municipal waste incineration plants. It focused on...

The characteristics of the Île-de-France region, particularly its high level of urbanization, give rise to nuisances—notably noise and pollution—and raise questions about their health...

Introduction. Maternal mortality is an indicator of the quality of obstetric care. In 1996, France established a surveillance system that includes monitoring rates and causes, as well as...

Historically, forensic medicine has been a medical discipline situated at the intersection of medicine and the legal system, with the forensic pathologist recognized as a specialist in...

Environmental health surveillance (EHS) can be understood as "public health surveillance of health related to the environment." This allows us to define it by extension from the...

Current French health data surveillance systems are not suited to the specific needs of environmental health. To provide a scientific response to concerns raised by the public or...

A health alert is based on the validation of a signal indicating a threat to public health that requires immediate action. Environmental health warning signals have various sources:...