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Health Promotion: A Relevant Framework for Social Workers.
Most of the social determinants of health take shape outside the healthcare system, in people’s living and working conditions. Health promotion was designed to foster greater health...
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Effective Interventions for Preventing Accidents in Children’s Daily Lives: A Literature Review.
Preventing everyday accidents involving children is a major public health issue. In this article, we aim to provide an overview of the scientific evidence regarding effective...
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Oral health in adults.
The 2014 Health Barometer provides insight into the oral hygiene practices of adults in metropolitan France. The Ministry of Health, the French National Authority for Health (HAS), and...
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Work-related stress: sectors at higher risk.
The occupations and sectors most prone to psychological distress at work are intermediate professions, finance, and public administration. This finding comes from the Samotrace survey...
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The Capture-Recapture Method in Epidemiology: Principles, Limitations, and Applications
The capture-recapture method allows, by cross-referencing multiple sources of information from the same population, for estimating the number of cases not identified by any of the...
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Epidemiology of bacterial meningitis in France in 1999
In France, two data sources—mandatory reporting and the EPIBAC hospital laboratory network—make it possible to track trends in the incidence of bacterial meningitis (BM) and to determine...
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Mycobacterium xenopi infections in France
Mycobacterium xenopi, an atypical mycobacterium, was first described in 1959 when it was isolated from skin lesions of a South African frog, Xenopus laevis; however, its pathogenicity in...
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Transparency at the risk of misunderstanding. Misunderstanding: a limit to transparency policy
The French Institute for Public Health Surveillance (InVS) has been entrusted by law with an increasingly prominent and urgent mission: to monitor the health of the population and alert...
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Thyroid status and prevalence of thyroid disorders among adults included in the SU.VI.MAX study in 1994–1995
