Introduction: To generate indicators of the time to treatment for cancer patients using medical-administrative databases, we sought to determine whether the effective date of long-term...

Despite the challenges involved in studying occupational risk factors for neurodegenerative diseases—particularly those related to the retrospective assessment of exposures—the most...

Introduction. In recent years, several public health indicators have suggested a resurgence of scabies in Aquitaine. In 2011, a retrospective descriptive study was conducted using two...

Introduction - The objective of this study was to describe, among the population residing in French Polynesia, the risk factors (smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, an unbalanced...

Problem Statement: Epidemiological studies aim to assess the health impact of local sources of environmental pollution by using self-reported health—based on respondents’ perceptions of...

Problem Statement: Epidemiological studies aim to assess the health impact of local sources of environmental pollution by using self-reported health—based on respondents’ perceptions of...

Objectives - In a context of uncertainty, when seeking to determine a health risk associated with population exposure to a chemical substance, it is often necessary to conduct a health...

Introduction: This article presents an experimental multisource surveillance system for acute poisonings that occurred in the Île-de-France region in 2010 and 2011, encompassing all...

Introduction: In the context of an aging population, it seems important to better understand how social inequalities in health evolve over the course of a person’s life. This article...