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Dioxins emitted by the Besançon municipal waste incineration plant and cancer risk: an eco-epidemiological approach in France.
Uncertainties remain regarding the risk posed by environmental exposure to dioxins for the general population. Our team therefore conducted a research program focused on the municipal...
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Socio-demographic and economic factors associated with tobacco, alcohol, and cannabis use among first-year college students in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region, 2005–2006
Objectives - To quantify students’ use of tobacco, alcohol, and cannabis and to identify the sociodemographic and socioeconomic factors associated with these uses. Methods - Survey of...
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Prevalence of healthcare-associated infections in home hospitalization (HAD) at Assistance publique - Hôpitaux de Paris, France, 2007
Home hospitalization facilities (HAD) have always been excluded from national surveys on the prevalence of nosocomial infections. However, a new survey on the prevalence of...
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Monitoring to Guide and Evaluate a Healthcare Facility’s Hospital-Acquired Infection Prevention Policy: The Experience of the Mulhouse Hospital Center, France.
The purpose of this article is to describe the role of surveillance in the policy for combating healthcare-associated infections at the Mulhouse Hospital Center. Initially organized by...
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Investigation of a multi-organism foodborne illness outbreak. Stade Yves du Manoir, Montpellier (France), February 2010
Objectives - On Saturday, February 20, 2010, firefighters in the Hérault department reported to the Hérault Territorial Delegation of the Regional Health Agency (DT34-ARS) that...
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Regionalization of Surveillance for Syphilis and Other STIs: Principles and Initial Results in Languedoc-Roussillon (France), 2009.
Introduction - The RésIST network brings together clinicians who volunteer to report cases of syphilis, gonorrhea, and anogenital lymphogranuloma to the French Institute for Public...
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Factors Influencing General Practitioners’ Participation in Public Health Surveillance: The Merveille Survey, 2008
Strengthening disease surveillance systems in France requires greater involvement of general practitioners (GPs). Methods—A descriptive, cross-sectional survey was conducted across...
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Q Fever in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. An epidemiological study
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Asthma and COPD: Hospitalization and Mortality Rates in France’s Overseas Departments and Metropolitan France, 2005–2007
Objective - This article presents hospitalization and mortality rates for asthma and COPD in Réunion and the French West Indies and compares them with those in mainland France. Methods...
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Management of a hospital-community measles outbreak at the Reims University Hospital, January–March 2008
Introduction - On February 11, 2008, the reporting of three cases of measles among residents of the Reims metropolitan area triggered an investigation to document the outbreak, assess...
