Introduction: Guadeloupe has a high rate of preterm birth despite access to healthcare comparable to that in mainland France. The launch of a prospective study (the Timoun cohort) in...

Background: Regional Health Agencies (ARS) receive reports of adverse events related to patient care within the healthcare and medico-social services system, which are submitted to...

Introduction: In France, drowning accounts for nearly 500 accidental deaths each summer and, in some cases, leads to serious long-term consequences. The majority of these incidents...

The National Inter-Regime Health Insurance Information System (Sniiram) is a particularly valuable database for epidemiology, health economics, health evaluation, surveillance, and...

Introduction: The objective of this study was to measure and characterize deaths from everyday accidents in France from 2000 to 2012. Method: The results were derived from a "reference...

Objective: The analysis of mortality data is essential for public health surveillance. Given that deaths are often attributable to multiple diseases, this article presents a new method...

The objective of this study was to describe and quantify the influence of the socioeconomic environment on cancer incidence for each of the 15 most common solid tumors and the three...

We conducted a literature search in the Medline database using the PubMed website. The incidence of presumably infectious encephalitis is estimated at 1.5–7 cases per 100,000...

Background: Given the health, social, and economic burden of neurodegenerative diseases (ND), there is a need for epidemiological studies. Administrative databases, such as the French...